IN THIS ARTICLE: Crime writer Agatha Christie's endearing supersleuth Miss Marple started life in 1930, in Murder at the Vicarage, as "a nasty old cat" with an unpleasant habit of interfering.
Agatha Christie, the great mystery writer, had a couple of famous detectives, and she would use those same detectives in each story – in each novel: Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.
One of the most famous writers in English of mysteries, who is still popular today, would be Agatha Christie, the British author whose works, whose books, have been translated into many different languages.
The rich mixture of dan-ger and detective work has also made it the perfect vehicle for fiction writers and film-makers, from Agatha Christie with Murder in Mesopotamia to Stephen Spielberg with Indiana Jones.