Christie, Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Christie, Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa

SYLLABICATION:	Chris·tie
PRONUNCIATION:	krst
DATES:	1890–1976
	British writer of more than 70 detective novels, including The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and And Then There Were None (1940). She also wrote plays, including The Mousetrap (1952) and Witness for the Prosecution (1954).


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