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Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, who went down in literary history as Agatha Christie, was born on 15 September 1890 in England, in the town of Torquay in Devonshire, situated almost on the very shore of the English Channel.

Her parents, Clara and Frederick Miller, were well-off representatives of the upper British middle class, the very class that appears before readers on the pages of most of her novels.

Agatha was the third and youngest child in the Miller family. Her sister Madge (Margaret Frary, 1879–1950) and brother Monty (Louis Montant, 1880–1929) were eleven and ten years older than she was…

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