135 years ago today, September 15, 1890 (August 2, 1890 in the lunar calendar), British detective novel writer Agatha Christie was born. Agatha Christie (1890-1976) A famous British female detective novelist and playwright. Born in Torquay, Devon, England, her father is a British-American and her mother is British. She studied music in Paris when she was young, but her love of literature finally made her give up her career as a singer. She imitated Conan Doyle's writing and wrote her first detective novel,"The Strange Case of Stiles Manor", when she was 30 years old. "The Suspect of Roger" published in 1926 made her famous, and later wrote works such as "Murder in the Parsonage House","Murder on the Orient Express","Massacre on the Nile","Ten Little Black Men"(also translated as "No One Survived"),"Mousetrap"(also translated as "Mouse Trap", formerly known as "Three Blind Rats"),"Silent Witness", and "Scene" that made a sensation in the world literary world. Each work has aroused enthusiastic welcome from readers. The character Poirot in the book has become the second world-class detective after Holmes. In her life, she wrote 70 detective novels, 14 plays and 20 short stories, as well as 6 love novels and 2 children's books. At the age of 66, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire and an honorary doctorate in literature from the University of Exeter. In 1975, when she finished writing her last novel,"The Scene", the great detective Poirot died in the book, which amazed many readers. On January 12 of the following year, he passed away peacefully in Wallingford, England, at the age of 85.