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Facts about Mystery Novels and Agatha Christie
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Agatha Christie disappeared mysteriously for eleven days in 1926, sparking a massive police search before she was found at a hotel in Harrogate, England.
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Christie's 1939 novel And Then There Were None is one of the best-selling mystery books ever published, with over 100 million copies sold.
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The character Miss Marple, Christie's sharp-eyed village spinster detective, first appeared in the 1930 novel Murder at the Vicarage.
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Her detective character Hercule Poirot appears in 33 novels and more than 50 short stories, making him one of fiction's most frequently appearing sleuths.
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Agatha Christie is the best-selling fiction writer of all time, with her mystery novels having sold over two billion copies worldwide.