Agatha Christie's secret notebooks fifty years of mysteries in the making
A fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie's long hidden notebooks, including illustrations, analyses, and two previously unpublished short stories. This was first published in the UK --Provided by publisher.
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New York :
Harper,
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- A murder is announced: the beginning of a career
- Dumb witness: the evidence of the notebooks. Exhibit A: The Detection Club
- The moving finger: Agatha Christie at work. Exhibit B: Other crime writers int he notebooks
- Cat among the pigeons: The nursery rhyme murders. Exhibit C: Agatha Christie in the notebooks
- Blind man's buff: a game of murder. Exhibit D: true crime in the notebooks
- The girl in the train: murder abroad
- Elephants can remember: murder in retrospect. Exhibit E: N or M?
- a titles quiz
- Destination unknown: murder abroad
- In a glass darkly: the unknown Christie. Exhibit F: The house of dreams: unused ideas
- Sanctuary: a holiday for murder
- Poirot investigates: The labours of Hercules. Exhibit G: Murder is easy: seeds of inspiration
- The body in the library: murder by quotation
- Appendix: Swan song: two last stories. The capture of Cerberus ; The incident of the dog's ball.
