Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie DBE, a novelist and playwright, was born on 15th Sept 1890 and died on 12th Jan 1976. She has written 66 detective novels and 15 short stories and some plays. She is the best-selling novelist of all time, claimed by Guinness Book of World Record. Her famous works include: Murder in Mesopotamia (1936), Appointment with Death (1938), Death on the Nile (1937), They Came to Baghdad (1951), The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) and The Secret Adversary.