![]() ![]() Remarkable, yes, but the extremely early beginning led to her tremendous success. All this had begun when she had a poem published in a local London newspaper when she was only four years old. Her accomplishments often came in unusual fashion, as she would be walking down a street and a plot idea would come to her. Her success was so extraordinary she became the bestselling novelist of all time, with only the Bible and Shakespeare exceeding her sales. It was about thirty-three years before Agatha Christie entered the detective mystery field, and she wound up becoming one of the most well-known English authors of the twentieth century. The detective story was more or less invented by Edgar Allen Poe, but he more or less lost interest with the genre and moved on, with the next leading practitioner being Arthur Conan Doyle with his Sherlock Holmes tales. ![]()
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