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Now Published – Agatha Christie: Plots, Clues and Misdirections
Why do Agatha Christie’s novels continue to inspire each generation? The answer is the quality and range of her puzzles: her rich and varied structures of deception. In this new book we analyse…
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The unique achievement of Agatha Christie
Each week we will score and review a different one of Agatha Christie’s 66 crime novels, taking them in chronological order of publication ...
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100 spine-tingling years of Agatha Christie: Plots, Puzzles and Misdirections: The Oldie Blog
For a celebration of the Christie centenary see Tony Hope's blog in The Oldie..
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The 66 crime novels
We have now posted our reviews of Agatha Christie’s 66 crime novels. We take our hats off to Christie. Hers was a major, and magnificent, achievement. Christie’s creativity in devising plots and puzzles…
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Agatha Christie and Shakespeare
Christie, like Shakespeare, was also a very successful playwright; The Mousetrap has been the longest continuous run of any play, vanquished by Covid-19 in 2020. This was something else they have in common;…
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Sleeping Murder
Gwenda felt a wave of irrational terror sweep over her and then in a horrifying moment she suddenly remembers …
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Postern of Fate
“Mary Jordan did not die naturally. It was one of us. I think I know which one” Tuppence works out a secret coded message from long ago. The final Tommy and Tuppence adventure.
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Elephants Can Remember
‘She asked me whether her mother had killed her father or her father had killed her mother.’ And so Hercule Poirot is drawn in to investigate …
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