據金氏世界紀錄統計，阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂是人類史上最暢銷的著書作家。而將所有形式的著作算入，只有聖經與威廉·莎士比亞的著作的總銷售量在她之上。至今其著作曾翻譯成超過103種語言，總銷突破20億本。她是公認的「偵探小說之后」（Queen of Crime），對英國偵探小說的發展有很重要的影響和富爭議的啟發。

 

    阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂總共發行了超過80本小說和劇本。她所寫的偵探小說，主要使用密室推理法，而且通常要到結尾才知道誰是真凶。在第一次世界大戰期間，阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂先後在一所醫院和一所藥房工作。這段經歷，對她日後的寫作起了很大的影響：她所寫的謀殺案，受害人大多是被毒藥毒殺的。她對寫作一絲不苟和嚴格認真的態度，令讀者有能力從書中搜索和掌握到充分的資料，解開疑團。

 

    Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, DBE (1890–1976) was an English crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. 

 

    According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly 4 billion copies, and her estate claims that her works rank third, after those of William Shakespeare and the Bible, as the world's most-widely published books. Christie is the most-translated individual author, and her books have been translated into at least 103 languages. Many of her books and short stories have been filmed, and many have been adapted for television, radio, video games and comics.

 

 

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie