Agatha Christie (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781681776538)

AN EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD FINALIST

The author of the New York Times bestselling The Six now turns her formidable biographical skills to the greatest crime writer in the world, Agatha Christie.

It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant and award winning biographer, Laura Thompson now turns her sharp eye to Agatha Christie. 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 it shows no signs of slowing.

But 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.

Agatha Christie is as mysterious as the stories she penned, and writing about her is a detection job in itself. 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.

Author: Laura Thompson
ISBN-10: 1681776537
ISBN-13: 9781681776538
Publisher: Pegasus Crime
Language: English
Published: 03/06/2018
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 1.70d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/16/2017
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2017
Library Journal 03/15/2018 pg. 94
Shelf Awareness 03/23/2018