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Both have been widely dramatized in feature films and made-for-TV movies.Īgatha Christie also wrote romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Two of the characters she created, the brilliant little Belgian Hercule Poirot and the irrepressible and relentless Miss Marple, went on to become world-famous detectives. Her writing career spanned more than half a century, during which she wrote 80 novels and short story collections, as well as 14 plays, one of which, The Mousetrap, is the longest-running play in history. She is the most widely published author of all time in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 44 foreign languages. Agatha Christie is the world's best-known mystery writer.