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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Sam.

And I'm Neil. Have you ever played the game Cludo Neil?

The idea is that the person playing detective discovers who the murderer is,

where the crime took place and which weapon was used.

The last time I played Cludo, it was Professor Plum in the library with the dagger.

Cludo is based on a very popular type of book, The Murder Mystery.

Sometimes called a Who Done It. A story about a murder which doesn't reveal who the murder is

until the end. The Queen of Murder Mysteries is a British writer who was born in 1890.

Her books are read all over the world and have been translated into 103 different languages.

Her name is Agatha Christie. To date over two billion copies of her crime novels have been

sold worldwide, making her the best-selling novelist of all time and the subject of this program.

Perhaps her best-known story is Murder on the Orient Express, a Who Done It featuring her most

famous detective, Aircule Poirot, who starred in 33 of Agatha Christie's books.

More about that later, but as usual, I have a quiz question for you, Neil.

Poirot may be Agatha Christie's most famous detective, but he isn't her only one.

So who is Agatha Christie's other fictional detective? Is it a, Hesi Wainthrop,

B, Jessica Fletcher, or C, Miss Marple?

I guess it's a, Hesi Wainthrop.

OK, Neil, I'll reveal the answer at the end of the program.

As mentioned, one of Agatha Christie's most famous books is Murder on the Orient Express.

The story takes place on a train traveling from Istanbul in Turkey to Calais in northern France.

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