Agatha christie brief biography

Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Barton Road, Torquay, Devon, in September would go on to change the art of crime-writing forever.

Agatha Miller would, of course, become Agatha Christie - and when you look at how the self-taught woman started as a novelist, it's all the more amazing that she later became the biggest selling whodunnit writer the world has ever seen.

Her father, Frederick Miller, was from New York, but died when Agatha was a child, so she was brought up - and educated - by her mother in Torquay.

It was her mother who first suggested she tried her hand at writing, when Agatha was stuck indoors because of a cold.

The bust of Dame Agatha in Torquay

Agatha was also said to be rather disappointed about the mystery books on the market, as you could always guess "whodunnit."

A key time for her was during the First World War.

She married Archibald Christie - an officer in the air force - shortly after the outbreak of the war, and they had a very sho