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Reading Agatha Christie’s autobiography
I think I have read 80% of Agatha Christie’s detective novels if not all, and inom recall going to the library in my teens, and borrowing every title I could find, regardless of how grubby and worn it was.
I hadn’t realised that she had written an autobiography, and was so pleased to delve into the first hand konto of her childhood and descriptions of her immediate family members. I didn’t know that her father was American, and had married his step-mother’s niece. Her sister was the belle of the ball, and many years older than her. Agatha was the indulged youngest child, and her difficult brother was the typical mittpunkt child.
It was a long autobiography, but I was very gripped by most of it. Only the lengthy descriptions of her life in the mittpunkt East (her second husband was an archeologist, 14 years her junior) were a tad dry.
I loved learning about the period of English history that she lived in, and how hous
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Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
This article is about the English author. For other uses, see Agatha Christie (disambiguation).
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime"—a nickname now trademarked by her estate—or the "Queen of Mystery".[1][2] She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. She is the best-selling
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hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Missing. Collins, St. James's Place, London, 1977. Hardcover, 542 pp. "First published 1977, Reprinted 1977". Good/ NO dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping to edges of coversand light overall scuffing and soiling to covers as well. Spine slightly cocked but binding is tight. Previous owner's name in ink on front free end paper. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Missing dust jacket. Illustrations, some in color. [From Preface] Agatha Christie began to write this book in April 1950; she finished it some fifteen years later when she was 75 years old. Any book written over so long a period must contain certain repetitions and inconsistencies and these have been tidied up. Nothing of importance has been omitted, how-ever: substantially, this is the autobiography as she would have wished it to appear. She ended it when she was