Agatha Christie was born 1890 in Torquay, Devon, England, and educated at home by her mother. Her father was called Frederick Miller so she was born as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller. In 1914 she married Colonel Archibald Christie, but then World War I had broken out. Agatha worked as a nurse in a Red Cross hospital in Torquay at that time and that experience was going to be useful later on in her life. Her first book …showed first 75 words of 673 total…

…showed last 75 words of 673 total…their darkest secrets--until they begin to die. In Death on the Nile, Poirot, on vacation in Africa, meets the rich, beautiful Linnet Doyle and her new husband, Simon. As usual, all is not as it seems between the newlyweds, and when Linnet is found murdered, Poirot must sort through a boatload of suspects to find the killer before he (or she) strikes again. Agatha wrote nearly 84 books, from the early twenties to the late seventies.