Why Is Agatha Christie So Popular

Agatha Christie was born on 15 September 1890, into an affluent, upper middle class family in Devon and died on 12 January 1976. She was an English crime novelist, playwright and a short story writer. She is well known for her 82 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, The Mousetrap which holds a world record for longest initial run.
Christie described her childhood as "very happy’’ as she was surrounded by a series of strong and independent women from an early age. Agatha was raised in a household with various esoteric beliefs. Her mother Clara was ill because of which

Her works come third in the rankings of the world's most-widely published books, only behind the Bible and Shakespeare's works as claimed by her domain. In all she is thought to have sold between two and four billion books worldwide, and every year a further five million novels are bought.

There are many reasons for Agatha Christie’s popularity among the masses. According to Barry Forshaw, the editor of British Crime Writing, it is the simple language, meticulously constructed plots and the evocative settings of a bygone British era that keep people coming back.
The first thing that makes Christie so accessible is the way she writes. There is no single author out there who manages to translate so well into so many different languages. She keeps the language fairly straightforward and simple but the plots are constructed incredibly well, like a finely tuned machine. Her books stand as an informal history of England in the 20th century. Christie's books are extremely easy to read. Though they are primarily aimed at adults, they can be easily read by children too. Though some of them are nearly a century old by now, they don't feel outdated. It's this effortless cosmopolitanism that makes her books feel so

The world changed a lot during her time and while her books are limited to her specific social view, it is an interesting look into that narrow world of her social status - a kind of last glimpse of the world she was born into. And last, the books are just the right length that anyone - even those who don't claim to be great readers - can pick them up and read them in a couple of days

Considering she was dubbed the "Queen of Crime" and achieved worldwide fame at an early stage in her writing career, Christie spoke of her own work in remarkably self-depreciating terms. Her detractors have often criticised her for lacking but Christie described herself as an entertainer, not a literary giant. She once said that "I think the real work is done in thinking out the development of your story and worrying about it until it comes right, that may take quite a while but then, when you've got all your material together, all that remains is to find time to write the