Step 1 : Introduction to the question "4. I think Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple would agree that this rose was named after one of the best crime novelists of our time. Who was she?"
...1. Val McDermid 2. Sue Grafton 3. Agatha Christie 4. Martina Cole Agatha Christie was a famous British crime novelist born in 1890. Her books included "Murder on the Orient Express" (1934), "Death on the Nile" (1937) and "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side" (1962). The rose named after Agatha Christie was introduced in 1988 by Kordes in Germany. The flower is a pale pink climbing rose with a light fragrance.