Christie, Agatha Mary Clarissa, Dame (nee Miller; Lady Mallowan)

English mystery author

created characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple

wrote novels "Murder on the Orient Express" 1934, "And Then There Were None" 1941

• "'But it is always interesting when one doesn't see,'she added.'If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way around.'"
• "I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
• "An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her."
• "Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."