
On this day
Born 15-9-1890, Agatha Christie, highly successful crime writer, creator of both Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, he of the twirling moustache and the diminutive spinster Miss Jane Marple, both of whom frequently portrayed on film and T.V.
Also, in 1789, James Fenimore Cooper, American author, probably best remembered for, “The last of the Mohicans.”
