Premise: Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie , Lady Mallowan , DBE ( née Miller ; 15 September 1890 -- 12 January 1976 ) was an English crime novelist , short story writer and playwright . Christie 's stage play The Mousetrap holds the world record for longest initial run . Most of her books and short stories have been adapted for television , radio , video games and comics , and more than thirty feature films have been based on her work . The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie , first published in June 1926 in the United Kingdom by William Collins , Sons and in the United States by Dodd , Mead and Company on 19 June 1926 .
Hypothesis: Agatha Christie avoided professional writing her entire life.
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