![]() ![]() With unprecedented access to all of Christie's letters, papers, and notebooks, as well as fresh and insightful interviews with her grandson, daughter, son-in-law, and their living relations, Thompson is able to unravel not only the detailed workings of Christie's detective fiction but the truth behind this mysterious woman. Arguably the greatest crime writer in the world, Christie's books still sell over four million copies each year - more than thirty years after her death - and this phenomenon shows no sign of slowing.īut who was the woman behind these mystifying, yet eternally pleasing puzzlers? Thompson reveals the Edwardian world in which Christie grew up, explores her relationships, including those with her two husbands and daughter, and investigates the many mysteries still surrounding Christie's life, most notably, her eleven-day disappearance in 1926.Īgatha Christie is as mysterious as the stories she penned, and writing about her is a detection job in itself. A brilliant and award-winning biographer, Laura Thompson now turns her sharp eye to Agatha Christie. ![]() It has been one hundred years since she wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. ![]() a biography of Nancy Mitford, and Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life. Laura Thompsons biography of Agatha Christie finds clues to her popularity in the quality of her prose, says Rachel Cooke Rachel Cooke msrachelcooke Sun 18.51 EDT Agatha. ![]() Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life by Laura Thompson LAURA THOMPSON won the Somerset Maugham award for her first book, The Dogs. ![]()
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