April 2, 2025
AGATHA CHRISTIE Murder in the Making by John Curran (2011, Hardcover, BCE)
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In this invaluable illustrated companion to Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks , Christie expert and archivist John Curran examines the unpublished notes of the world's bestselling author to explore the techniques she used to surprise and entertain generations of readers. Drawing on Christie's personal material and letters, he reveals how more than 20 of her novels, as well as stage and radio scripts, short stories and some more personal items, evolved. Includes images of selected notebook pages. This fascinating and enlightening book features several wonderful gems, including a never-before-published short story set in Africa. Incorporating what is possibly Christie's grisliest method of murder, this story became the basis for an unpublished BBC radio drama. Here also are Christie's own essay on how she created her famous detective, Hercule Poirot , written for a British newspaper in the 1930s, and a courtroom chapter edited out of her first published novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles . Topping it all off with Curran's analysis of her last unfinished novel, Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making offers a deeper understanding of the author's impressive body of work and will change the way her work is read for generations to come. “With a greater emphasis on the queen of crime’s inner life, Christie expert Curran reveals both
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