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| A fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie's 73 recently discovered notebooks, including illustrations, deleted extracts, and two unpublished Poirot stories. When Agatha Christie died in 1976, aged 85, she had become the world's most popular author. With sales of more than two billion copies worldwide in more than 100 countries, she had achieved the impossible - more than one book every year since the 1920s, every one a bestseller. So prolific was Agatha Christie's output - 66 crime novels, 20 plays, 6 romance books under a pseudonym and over 150 short stories - it was often claimed that she had a photographic memory. Was this true? Or did she resort over those 55 years to more mundane methods of working out her ingenious crimes? Following the death of Agatha's daughter, Rosalind, at the end of 2004, a remarkable secret was revealed. Unearthed among her affairs at the family home of Greenway were Agatha Christie's private notebooks, 73 handwritten volumes of notes, lists and drafts outlining all her plans for her many books, plays and stories. Buried in this treasure trove, all in her unmistakable handwriting, are revelations about her famous books that will fascinate anyone who has ever read or watched an Agatha Christie story. What is the 'deleted scene' in her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles? How did the infamous twist in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, really come about? Which very famous Poirot novel started life as an adventure for Miss Marple? Which books were designed to have completely different endings, and what were they? Full of details she was too modest to reveal in her own Autobiography, this remarkable new book includes a wealth of extracts and pages reproduced directly from the notebooks and her letters, plus for the first time two newly discovered complete Hercule Poirot short stories never before published. About the Author John Curran is the long-time literary advisor to her Agatha Christie's estate, often giving talks and appearing on documentaries about her life. He has spent the last few years unpicking the notebooks and deciphering Agatha Christie's handwriting for this, his first book. |
| Acknowledgements Notes Foreword Preface Introduction 1 A Murder is Announced: The Beginning of a Career 2 Dumb Witness: The Evidence of the Notebook Exhibit A: The Detection Club 3 The Moving Finger: Agatha Christie at Work Exhibit B: Other Crime Writers in the Notebooks 4 Cat among the Pigeons: The Nursery Rhyme Murders Exhibit C: Agatha Christie in the Notebooks 5 Blind Man's Buff: A Game of Murder Exhibit D: True Crime. in the Notebooks 6 The Girl in the Train: Murder Aboard 7 Elephants Can Remember: Murder in Retrospect Exhibit E: N or M? a Titles Quiz 8 Destination Unknown: Murder Abroad 9 In a Glass Darkly: The Unknown Christie Exhibit F: The House of Dreams: Unused Ideas 10 Sanctuary: A Holiday for Murder 11 Poirot Investigates: The Labours of Hercules Exhibit G: Murder is Easy: Seeds of Inspiration 12 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 Select Bibliography Index of titles |
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