A peculiar quote from someone whose life - full of adventurous journeys and emotional ups-and-downs - was anything but dull. “There’s nothing like boredom to make you write,” she once said.
It generally took this prolific writer around three to four months to write a novel. Despite having no formal education as a child, she taught herself to read at five-years-old, and by the time of her death, aged 85 in 1976, had written 66 detective novels, including the widely acclaimed “Murder on the Orient Express” and “Death on the Nile.”
DUBAI: The late British novelist Agatha Christie - known as the “Queen of Crime” - was a woman of extraordinary talent.
