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Agatha Christie named the nation's favourite detective writer.(Brief Article)

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Agatha Christie has topped a poll of crime authors to be named the nation's favourite detective writer.

The creator of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot wrote classics including 'Death on the Nile' and 'Murder on the Orient Express' and sold more than two billion murder mystery books around the world. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, came second in the poll of 1,500 people, followed by US writer Patricia Cornwell for her novels about the forensic psychologist Kay Scarpetta.

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