Murder at the Vicarage, Paperback

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is the best-selling author of all time. She published 66 crime novels, story collections, plays, and six novels in the romance genre under a pen name. More than one billion copies of her works have been sold worldwide, including one billion copies in translation. She continues to be the author who has had the most translations, according to Index Translationum, with at least 103 different languages. Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, two of the most lasting characters in crime fiction, were created by her. She is also the author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running drama in the annals of modern theatre. The youngest of three children, Agatha Mary Alarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K.