During the First World War, she worked at a hospital as a nurse later working at a hospital pharmacy, a job that influenced her work, as many of the murders in her books are carried out with poison. The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880–1929), called Monty, ten years older than Agatha.īefore marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. The youngest of three children of the Miller family. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. More than seventy detective novels of British writer Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie include The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and And Then There Were None (1939) she also wrote plays, including The Mousetrap (1952). It isn’t long before they find themselves plunged into more danger than they ever could have imagined-a danger that could put an abrupt end to their business… and their lives.Īgatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan. But he two young working undercover for the British ministry know only that her name and the only photo of her is in the hands of her rich American cousin.

Now post-war England's economic recovery depends on finding her and getting the papers back. And neither her body nor the secret documents she was carrying have ever been found. So strange, in fact, that they decided to find this mysterious missing lady. Where is the real Jane Finn? The mere mention of her name produces a very strange reaction all over London. Now their newest job are playing detective.

But with the assignment comes a bribe to keep quiet, a threat to her life, and the disappearance of her new employer. Whittingtont, all Tuppence has to do in their first job is take an all-expense paid trip to Paris and pose as an American named Jane Finn. In their first assignment for the mysterious Mr. Restless for excitement, they decide to embark on a daring business scheme: Young Adventurers Ltd.-'willing to do anything, go anywhere.' Hiring themselves out proves to be a smart move for the couple. Just after Great War, there are few jobs available and the couple are desperately short of money. Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke.

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