Queen Of Crime

The woman who gave us Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple is still going strong 40 years after she died

Like many top criminals, she has a string of aliases. Call her Lady Mallowan, Mary Westmacott, Ajiasha Kelisidi or plain old Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, and in so doing you will have fingered she who done it.

What she has done is gain a legion of loyal readers in China, and as with all good detective novels there is a fiendish twist: she has achieved all of this from beyond the grave.