The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie: A biographical companion to the works of Agatha Christie

The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie: A biographical companion to the works of Agatha Christie
Charles Osborne

A biographical companion to the works of Agatha Christie – revised and updated editionAgatha Christie was the author of over 100 plays, short story collections and novels which have been translated into 103 languages; she is outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Many have tried to copy her but none has succeeded. Attempts to capture her personality on paper, to discover her motivations or the reasons for her popularity, have usually failed. Charles Osborne, a lifelong student of Agatha Christie, has approached this most private of persons above all through her books, and the result is a fascinating companion to her life and work.This ‘professional life’ of Agatha Christie provides authoritative information on each book’s provenance, on the work itself and on its contemporary critical reception set against the background of the major events in the author’s life. Illustrated with many rare photographs, this comprehensive guide to the world of Agatha Christie has been fully updated to include details of all the publications, films and TV adaptations in the 25 years since her death.Note that it has not been possible to include the same picture content that appeared in the original print version.

THE AGATHA CHRISTIE COLLECTION

1 The Mysterious Affair at Styles

2 The Secret Adversary

3 Murder on the Links

4 The Man in the Brown Suit

5 Poirot Investigates

6 The Secret of Chimneys

7 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

8 The Big Four

9 The Mystery of the Blue Train

10 The Seven Dials Mystery

11 Partners in Crime

12 The Mysterious Mr Quin

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13 The Murder at the Vicarage

14 The Sittaford Mystery

15 Peril at End House

16 The Thirteen Problems

17 Lord Edgware Dies

18 The Hound of Death

19 Murder on the Orient Express

20 The Listerdale Mystery

21 Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

22 Parker Pyne Investigates

23 Three Act Tragedy

24 Death in the Clouds

25 The ABC Murders

26 Murder in Mesopotamia

27 Cards on the Table

28 Dumb Witness

29 Death on the Nile

30 Murder in the Mews

31 Appointment with Death

32 Hercule Poirot’s Christmas

33 Murder is Easy

34 And Then There Were None

35 Sad Cypress

36 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

37 Evil Under the Sun

38 N or M?

39 The Body in the Library

40 Five Little Pigs

41 The Moving Finger

42 Towards Zero

43 Death Comes as the End

44 Sparkling Cyanide

45 The Hollow

46 The Labours of Hercules