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Agatha Christie
Writer
Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was an English author famed for writing detective novels, short stories, plays and poems. Some of her well-known works include Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, The Murder at the Vicarage, Partners In Crime, and The Mousetrap which featured the celebrated detectives, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie was awarded a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1971.
Antony Trollope
Novelist
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was an English novelist, short story writer and playwright; he was one of the most prolific writers of the Victorian era writing fourty-seven novels. Some of Trollope’s notable works were The Way We Live Now, The Macdermots of Ballycloran and The Warden, as well as The Chronicles of Barsetshire which comprised of six novels based on this imaginary county. He was also the creator of pillar boxes!
Arthur Conan Doyle
Writer
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a writer best known for the creation of arguably the most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes. Scottish-born Doyle wrote four novels and more than fifty short stories featuring Detective Holmes, as well as exploring the genres of fantasy and science fiction, humorous stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels in books like The Lost World, showing just what a prolific writer he was.