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PASSENGER TO FRANKFURT Agatha Christie Agatha Christie was born in Torquay of an English mother and an American father. Her first novel was The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, in which she served as a V.A.D. in France . It was in this book that she created the brilliant little Belgian detective with the egg shaped head and the impressive moustaches, Hercule Poirot, who was destined to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. In 1926 she wrote what is still considered her masterpiece. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. This was the first of her books to be published by William Collins, who have been her publishers ever since. Her 73rd detective novel. Elephants Can Remember, appeared in November 1972. Agatha Christie, now in her eighties, is married to Sir Max Mallowan, a well-known archaeologist, and apart from her writing, her husband's subject, archaeology, remains her chief outside interest. They live in a beautiful house in Devon, overlooking the river Dart, and they also have a home in London. ......