Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

阿加莎克里斯蒂以推理女王而聞名於世。 她的書已售出超過 10 億冊英文版和 70 多種外語版的另外 10 億冊。 她是有史以來以任何語言出版最多的作家，銷量僅次於聖經和莎士比亞。 她著有 80 部犯罪小說和短篇小說集、20 部戲劇，以及以瑪麗·韋斯特馬科特 (Mary Westmacott) 的名義撰寫的六部小說。