Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

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Acocella, Joan. "Queen of Crime". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020 . Retrieved 29 April 2020. Christie developed her storytelling techniques during what has been called the "Golden Age" of detective fiction. [119] Author Dilys Winn called Christie "the doyenne of Coziness", a sub-genre which "featured a small village setting, a hero with faintly aristocratic family connections, a plethora of red herrings and a tendency to commit homicide with sterling silver letter openers and poisons imported from Paraguay". [120] At the end, in a Christie hallmark, the detective usually gathers the surviving suspects into one room, explains the course of their deductive reasoning, and reveals the guilty party; but there are exceptions where it is left to the guilty party to explain all (such as And Then There Were None and Endless Night). [121] [122] Mezel, Kathy (2007). "Spinsters, Surveillance, and Speech: The Case of Miss Marple, Miss Mole, and Miss Jekyll". The Journal of Modern Literature. 30 (2): 103–20. doi: 10.2979/JML.2007.30.2.103. JSTOR 4619330. S2CID 162411534.

a b c d e Gillian, Gill (1990). Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries. New York City: The Free Press. ISBN 002911702X. Christie's autobiography makes no reference to the disappearance. [12] Two doctors diagnosed her with "an unquestionable genuine loss of memory", [49] [50] yet opinion remains divided over the reason for her disappearance. Some, including her biographer Morgan, believe she disappeared during a fugue state. [4] :154–59 [40] [51] The author Jared Cade concluded that Christie planned the event to embarrass her husband but did not anticipate the resulting public melodrama. [52] :121 Christie biographer Laura Thompson provides an alternative view that Christie disappeared during a nervous breakdown, conscious of her actions but not in emotional control of herself. [14] :220–21 Public reaction at the time was largely negative, supposing a publicity stunt or an attempt to frame her husband for murder. [53] [e] Second marriage and later life: 1927–1976 [ edit ] Christie's room at the Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul, where the hotel claims she wrote her 1934 novel Murder on the Orient Express Scott, Sutherland (1953). Blood in Their Ink. London: Stanley Paul. Cited in Fitzgibbon (1980). p. 19. Agatha Christie 'one of Britain's first stand-up surfers' ". The Daily Telegraph. 29 July 2011. Archived from the original on 29 July 2011 . Retrieved 30 July 2011. For information on Christie's book originally titled Ten Little Niggers, see And Then There Were None.In addition to Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, Christie also created amateur detectives Thomas (Tommy) Beresford and his wife, Prudence "Tuppence" née Cowley, who appear in four novels and one collection of short stories published between 1922 and 1974. Unlike her other sleuths, the Beresfords were only in their early twenties when introduced in The Secret Adversary, and were allowed to age alongside their creator. [30] :19–20 She treated their stories with a lighter touch, giving them a "dash and verve" which was not universally admired by critics. [31] :63 Their last adventure, Postern of Fate, was Christie's last novel. [14] :477

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