Thanks to her exceptional talent, English detective novelist and playwright Agatha Christie fast became one of the world’s top-selling authors with works like Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile.
At the time of her death in 1976, she was the best-selling novelist in history.
Although it’s thought that one particular novel penned by Agatha Christie may have inspired a murderer in his methods, it’s nice to know that her work saved lives, too.
In her famous novel, The Pale Horse, Christie described the symptoms of thallium poisoning so well that a nurse who read the book recognised the symptoms in a baby and was able to save it from certain death.
