Agatha Christie is the second best-selling author of all time, with over 2 billion works sold in 45 languages. She is the most translated author and has had 27 film adaptations. Christie also wrote the longest running play in the world, “The Mousetrap”.
British mystery writer Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. She is estimated to have sold over 2 billion works, placing Christie’s books just behind the Bible and William Shakespeare in terms of the majority of sales. She has sold about a billion books in English and another billion have been sold translated into about 45 different foreign languages. She is the most translated author and has been translated into more languages than Shakespeare. Since her first novel was published in 1920, Christie’s 80 works have been adapted into film versions 27 times.
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In 1975, The New York Times ran an obituary when Christie murdered one of her most prolific characters, Hercule Poirot, who had appeared in 33 novels.
In her real life, Christie mysteriously disappeared for 11 days after discovering her husband was having an affair: When asked, she denied remembering where she was at the time.
Christie is the author of the longest running play in the world, “The Mousetrap”, which she wrote for Queen Mary. It opened in 1952 in London and has been performing ever since, as of 2014.
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