Janet Morgan's definitive and authorised biography of Agatha Christie, with a new retrospective foreword by the author.

Agatha Christie (1890-1976), the world's bestselling author, is a public institution. Her creations, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, have become fiction's most legendary sleuths and her ingenuity has captured the imagination of generations of readers. But although she lived to a great age and was prolific, she remained elusively shy and determinedly private.

Given sole access to family papers and other protected material, Janet Morgan's definitive biography unravels Agatha Christie's life, work and relationships, creating a revealing and faithfully honest portrait. The book has delighted readers of Christie's detective stories for more than 30 years with its clear view of her career and personality, and this edition includes a new foreword by the author reflecting on the longevity of Agatha Christie's extraordinary success and popularity.

Janet Morgan's definitive and authorised biography of Agatha Christie, with a new retrospective foreword by the author.

Janet Morgan is a writer and consultant who lives near Oxford. She worked in the government's 'Think Tank' from 1978 to 1981 and now advises governments, companies and other organizations on long-range planning, new technology and different strategies. Agatha Christie is her first biography.

Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.