Agatha Christie is one of the bestselling authors of all-time, and her work is considered the pinnacle of the mystery genre. As such, the entire genre owes a debt to Christie's work. One can find the DNA of her work in contemporary mystery novels like Gone Girl, for instance. One may also look back to, for instance, the work of Arthur Conan Doyle, and compare how Christie's mysteries play out versus those of Sherlock Holmes.
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