Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was a British author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the...
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
—Agatha Christie in A Murder Is Announced
Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
—Agatha Christie in The Secret Adversary
—Hope Edelman in Motherless Daughters
—Hope Edelman in Motherless Daughters
—Meghan O'Rourke in The Long Goodbye