If you prefer the swagger and wit of Hercule Poirot, start with The Mysterious Affair at Styles, then work your way through the stack of Agatha Christie books that feature the Belgian detective.

Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, British crime-writing legend Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist in history. Known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime, Christie wrote ...

Marie Benedict does. In “The Queens of Crime,” Benedict imagines that five of the female greats of the era, fighting a snobbish fraternity of male authors, band together to prove their skill by ...

No one may ever know what really happened to Agatha Christie when she vanished for 11 days in December 1926, but bestselling author Marie Benedict provides a compelling reconstruction with her ...