She went on to write over a hundred works, including further novels, short stories, plays, poetry, and two autobiographies. Following the limited success of the novel, she continued to write and steadily built up a fan base. Christie's writing career began during the war, after she was challenged by her sister to write a detective story she produced The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which was turned down by two publishers before being published in 1920. After he was sent to the Western Front in the First World War, she worked with the Voluntary Aid Detachment and in the chemist dispensary, giving her a working background knowledge of medicines and poisons. She married Archibald Christie in December 1914, but the couple divorced in 1928. Following the publication of the 1975 novel Curtain, Poirot's obituary appeared on the front page of The New York Times. Christie wrote more Poirot stories than any of the others, even though she thought the character to be 'rather insufferable'. Her works contain several regular characters with whom the public became familiar, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Parker Pyne and Harley Quin. She is also the most translated individual author in the world with her books having been translated into more than 100 languages. Her reputation rests on 66 detective novels and 15 short-story collections that have sold over two billion copies, an amount surpassed only by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright.

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