Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

Born in 1926 in Providence, Rhode Island, into a family of distinguished Scottish architects and town planners, Tom Adams had artistry in his blood. Tom trained at Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmiths College, London, graduating in Fine Art in 1950.Returning to Agatha Christie in 2014 with new cover painting for the lost story Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly, Tom Adams' artistry is undiminished. He now lives in Cornwall with his wife, Georgie, who writes children's books.