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It turns out that her play The Mousetrap is the longest running West End show in history, having had a continuous run since it opened in 1952 and an accumulated audience of more than 10 million people.And, if all of this were not enough, Christie is also the most successful female playwright of all time. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. In her life, Christie wrote 66 crime novels, 6 other novels, 24 plays, and more than 150 short stories. Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. 30% of readers in the US mark Christie as their introduction to the mystery genre.Agatha Christie kindle books/A Pocketful of Rye (193)/cover.jpg. Agatha Christie kindle books/A Murder Is Announced (192)/cover.jpg. Her novels have been translated in more than 100 languages, making her the world’s most-translated writer. Agatha Christie kindle books/A Caribbean Mystery (191)/cover.jpg.Her books are outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare.An estimated 32 million Americans have read one of Christie’s books.Here are some other statistics about her legacy, courtesy of this study: According to a commemorative study recently commissioned by Harper Collins and completed by an independent research group, Agatha Christie’s novels have sold more than one billion copies in the English language and another billion internationally. It is 100 years since Agatha Christie published her first novel, the droll Hercule Poirot whodunit The Mysterious Affair at Styles.