Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime
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Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Unknown Binding
Author:
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Unknown Binding
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H.R.F. Keating, a crime novelist and respected reviewer of crime fiction, has assembled a dozen distinguished writers from both sides of the Atlantic to throw light on this double mystery. Some ananyze Agatha Christie's art itself. Some explain the reasons for its success, not only in her own country but in America and all over the world, and not only in the field of the mystery novel but in those of the theater and film and even-another mystery-as the pseudonymous author of novels of love and life. Finally we have perhaps the fullest account of her life yet published in this country.
The approaches are various-penetrating, affectionate, enthusiastic, analytical, funny even critical. But all in their various ways make very much clearer what was the secret of a writer who perhaps gave more pleasure to more people than any other single contemporary.
Numerous illustrations highlight many fascinating aspects of Agatha Christie's privete and public life. (There are over 60 photographs.)
H.R.F. Keating, a crime novelist and respected reviewer of crime fiction, has assembled a dozen distinguished writers from both sides of the Atlantic to throw light on this double mystery. Some ananyze Agatha Christie's art itself. Some explain the reasons for its success, not only in her own country but in America and all over the world, and not only in the field of the mystery novel but in those of the theater and film and even-another mystery-as the pseudonymous author of novels of love and life. Finally we have perhaps the fullest account of her life yet published in this country.
The approaches are various-penetrating, affectionate, enthusiastic, analytical, funny even critical. But all in their various ways make very much clearer what was the secret of a writer who perhaps gave more pleasure to more people than any other single contemporary.
Numerous illustrations highlight many fascinating aspects of Agatha Christie's privete and public life. (There are over 60 photographs.)
