Agatha Christie

Novelist, Playwright · Virgo · born September 15, 1890 in Torquay, Devon, England

Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She wrote sixty-six detective novels, worked as a hospital dispenser in both wars — which is where the poisons came from — and wrote The Mousetrap, still the longest-running play in the world.

Their Virgo side

Virgo precision: she learned real pharmacology so the poisons would be right.

Notable works

  • Murder on the Orient Express
  • And Then There Were None
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
  • The Mousetrap

Achievements

  • Best-selling novelist of all time, over two billion copies
  • The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in history
  • Created Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple
  • Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire

In their words

  • “The best time for planning a book is while you are doing the dishes.”
  • “Very few of us are what we seem.”

Birth chart facts

  • Sun sign: Virgo
  • Chinese zodiac: Metal Tiger
  • Life path number: 6 — The Nurturer
  • Born on a Monday

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