Agatha Christie's secret notebooks: fifty years of mysteries in the making
This is a fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie's 73 recently discovered notebooks, including illustrations, deleted extracts, and two unpublished Poirot stories.
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| Zusammenfassung: | This is a fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie's 73 recently discovered notebooks, including illustrations, deleted extracts, and two unpublished Poirot stories. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | 492 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780007310562 0007310560 |
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Contents
Acknowledgements
9
Notes 11
Foreword
13
Preface
15
Introduction
21
1
A Murder is Announced: The Beginning of
a Career
29
2
Dumb Witness: The Evidence of the Notebooks
41
Exhibit A: The Detection Club
58
3
The Moving Finger: Agatha Christie at Work
66
Exhibit B: Other Crime Writers in the Notebooks
102
4
Cat among the Pigeons: The Nursery Rhyme
Murders
105
Exhibit C: Agatha Christie in the NotebooL·
159
5
Blind Man's Buff: A Game of Murder
162
Exhibit D: True Crime in the Notebooks
191
6
The Girl in the Train: Murder Aboard
195
7
Elephants Can Remember: Murder in
Retrospect
217
Exhibit E: Nor
M? a
Titles Quiz
257
8
Destination Unknown: Murder Abroad
259
9
In a Glass Darkly: The Unknown Christie
286
Exhibit F: The Howe of Dreams: Unused Ideas
303
10
Sanctuary: A Holiday for Murder
310
11
Poirot Investigates: The Labours of Hercules
346
Exhibit G: Murder is Easy: Seeds of Inspiration
369
12
The Body in the Library: Murder by Quotation
373
Appendix: Swan Song
-
Two Last Stories
423
The Capture of Cerberus
425
The Incident of the Dog's Ball
453
Select Bibliography
485
Index of titles
487
When Agatha Christie died in
1976,
aged
85,
she had become the world's most popular author.
With sales of more than two billion copies
worldwide, she had achieved the impossible
-
more than one book every year since the
1920s,
every one a bestseller. So prolific was her output,
it was even claimed that Agatha must have a
photographic memory. Was this true? Or did she
resort over those
55
years to more mundane
methods of planning her ingenious crimes?
Following the death of Agatha's daughter,
Rosalind, at the end of
2004,
a remarkable legacy
was revealed. Unearthed among her affairs at the
family home of Greenway were Agatha Christie's
private notebooks,
73
handwritten volumes
which, though known about for years, had been
largely ignored, probably because Agatha's
unmistakable handwriting was so hard to read.
But when archivist John
Curran
began
deciphering the notebooks, the extent or this
treasure trove became apparent.
This book lifts the lid on Agatha Christie's
biggest secret
-
how her pencilled notes, lists
and drafts led to her many successful books,
plays and stones. Alternative plots, titles and
characters, deleted scenes, even her plans for
the books she didn't get to write
-
John Currans
investigation reveals a wealth of unpublished
material, including two complete
Hercule Poirot
short stories never before published. The Incident
of the Dog's
Ballena
the unseen thirteenth
Labour of Hercules*.
John
Curran,
a lifelong Christie fan, lives in
Dublin. For many years he edited the official
Agatha Christie Newsletter and acted as a
consultant to the National Trust during the
restoration of Greenway House, Dame Agatha's
Devon home. John has been working with her
grandson, Mathew Prichard, to establish the
Agatha Christie Archive, and is currently
writing a doctoral thesis on Agatha Christie
at Trinity College, Dublin. |
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