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Author Thompson, Laura, 1964- author.

Title Agatha Christie : a mysterious life / Laura Thompson.

Publication Info. New York : Pegasus Books, 2018.
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
©2018

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 CHRISTIE    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY CHRISTIE    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  B CHRISTIE    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B CHRISTIE    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO CHRISTIE    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY CHRISTIE    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B CHRISTIE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B CHRISTIE AGATHA    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  B CHRISTIE, AGATHA THO    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B CHRISTIE, AGATHA    Check Shelf

Edition First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Description 534 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Summary 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.
"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"--Book jacket.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [490]-520) and index.
Contents The villa at Torquay -- The young Miss Miller -- The husband -- The child -- The secret adversary -- The quarry -- The second husband -- War -- English murder -- The late years -- God's mark -- The works of Agatha Christie.
Subject Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.
Women novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
Women authors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Spine Title Agatha Christie
ISBN 9781681776538 (hardcover)
1681776537 (hardcover)
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