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Agatha Christie secretly wrote romance novels

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The undisputed Queen of Crime occasionally needed a break from plotting grisly murders with poison. For over 20 years, Christie secretly published bittersweet romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. It took decades for the public to figure out the creator of Hercule Poirot was also moonlighting as a prolific romance novelist.

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