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Agatha Christie : a mysterious life / Laura Thompson.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781681776538
- ISBN: 1681776537
- Physical Description: 534 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 486-520) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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 -- Endnotes -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |
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| Genre: | Biographies. |
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- 23 of 24 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Abington Community Library | 92 CHRISTIE (Text) | 50687011576744 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Bangor Public Library | B 92 CHR (Text) | 75011000393543 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Ellwood City Area Public Library | 92 Christie (Text)
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Memorial Books : Dr. Donald A. Magee Given By The Entire Kegel Family.
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32102000830840 | ECAM Biography | Available | - |
| Emmaus Public Library | B NEW CHRISTIE (Text) | 36446001957193 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Exeter Community Library | CHR (Text) | 33249023546785 | Biography | Available | - |
| Green Free Library (Wellsboro) | 921 CHRISTIE (Text)
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A gift to The Green Free Library from Jim Kentch in memory of Mary Kentch
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92521692 | GFWM Main Room | Available | - |
| Highland Community Library | B CHR (Text) | 35610000929427 | HGHM Biography | Available | - |
| Huntingdon County Library | B CHRISTIE (Text) | 30298100504368 | Audiobook Biography | Available | - |
| Indian Valley Public Library | Biography Christie (Text) | 39427103306627 | Nonfiction Room: Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Martinsburg Community Library | B Chr (Text) | 1OMAR00086514M | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
