Description: Agatha Christie, Mystery Writer. Mini boxes for tiny treasures.
Measurement:  2in h
Interior Design: Book With Knife
Manufacturer: Harmony Ball
Material: Crushed Marble, with look and feel of antique ivory

The most successful mystery writer of all time and perhaps the most famous English novelist, Agatha Christie wrote 66 novels, almost 150 short stories, and 16 plays. Her books have sold more than 100 million copies and have been translated into some 100 languages, nearly as many as Shakespeare. Some of her more famous works are Murder on the Orient Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Death on the Nile, and the longest-running play in history, The Mousetrap, having been performed over 20,000 times since its release in London. Agatha May Clarissa Miller was born in Devon, England in 1890 to an American father and British mother, though she never claimed to be an American nor did she seek citizenship. She was the youngest of three children in a well-off family and was home-schooled by her mother. A shy child, Agatha first turned to music and then to writing to express herself. She married a WWI fighter pilot named Archie Christie in 1914, and together they had a daughter. Working as a nurse during the war, she came up with the idea for her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Published in 1920, it introduced the eccentric and egotistical Hercule Poirot, a retired Belgian police officer, who went on to appear in over 30 of her novels. Her other famous amateur detective was an elderly spinster named Miss Jane Marple, Christie’s favorite character. In 1926, Agatha faced two hardships - Archie Christie asked for a divorce and her mother died. In a move never fully explained, Christie disappeared and, after several highly-publicized days, was discovered registered in a hotel. Labeled as a stunt by the media, it is thought that she suffered a nervous breakdown. In 1930, Agatha married archaeologist Max Mallowan with whom she spent several months each year on expeditions in Iraq and Syria, travels which figured into her writings. In 1971, she became a Dame of the British Empire. Her last novel, Curtain, was published in 1975, the year before she died. It perhaps has the most astonishing twist of any Christie mystery and ends with the death of the great Hercule Poirot. Many of Christie’s novels were adapted into successful films, including Witness for the Prosecution, Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile. She also wrote romantic novels, such as Absent in the Spring, under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Her autobiography appeared posthumously in 1977.