According to distributors COMAG Specialist: The unrivalled ‘Queen of Crime’, Agatha Christie is still – 125 years after her birth – a much-loved and often emulated author of iconic British murder-mysteries and crime novels.
Born on 15 September 1890, Agatha Christie’s first published book (The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introducing Hercule Poirot) came out in 1920 and her last novel (Sleeping Murder, featuring Miss Marple) was published in October 1976, some nine months after she died.
A prolific author, Christie wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections in her own name, six books under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, as well as a number of plays.
Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, it is estimated that some two billion Agatha Christie books have been sold around the world, published in more than 100 languages and there have been numerous adaptations of her work on TV, film and radio.
Celebrating Christie’s life and writing to mark the 125th anniversary of her birth, The Mirror Collection – Real Crime Casebooks will give an insight into the life of the author and look at some of the true crime headlines behind two of her classic mysteries.
With features and photos from the Mirror archives, The Mirror Collection – Real Crime Casebooks will have detailed reports of two shocking real-life child murders that happened during Christie’s lifetime, which the ‘Duchess of Death’ used as inspiration for two of her most famous tales – The Mousetrap and Murder On The Orient Express.
The Mirror Collection – Real Crime Casebooks will feature exclusive contributions from the acclaimed author Dr Kathryn Harkup (A is For Arsenic) about Christie’s expertise in the field of poisons, as well as the thoughts of Sophie Hannah, author of best-selling official Poirot book The Monogram Murders, which was published in 2014.
Sure to be a must-have for Christie fans, 84-page The Mirror Collection – Real Crime Casebooks will also appeal to avid readers of crime stories, both fact and fiction.
