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A Brief Guide to Agatha Christie
Nigel Cawthorne
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Description for A Brief Guide to Agatha Christie
Paperback. A compelling guide to the bestselling author of all time, the aptly named Queen of Crime Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 214.
Agatha Christie's 80 novels and short-story collections have sold over 2 billion copies in more than 45 languages, more than any other author. When Christie finally killed off her Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, the year before she herself died, that `detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep' in Christie's words, received a full-page obituary in the New York Times, the only fictional character ever to have done so. From her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, a Poirot mystery, to her last, Sleeping Murder, featuring Miss Marple, Crawford explores Christie's life and fiction. Cawthorne examines ... Read more
Agatha Christie's 80 novels and short-story collections have sold over 2 billion copies in more than 45 languages, more than any other author. When Christie finally killed off her Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, the year before she herself died, that `detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep' in Christie's words, received a full-page obituary in the New York Times, the only fictional character ever to have done so. From her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, a Poirot mystery, to her last, Sleeping Murder, featuring Miss Marple, Crawford explores Christie's life and fiction. Cawthorne examines ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Brief Histories
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472110572
SKU
V9781472110572
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About Nigel Cawthorne
NIGEL CAWTHORNE has written over a hundred books including A Brief Guide to James Bond, A Brief History of Sherlock Holmes and A Brief Guide to J. R. R. Tolkien. He is also the co-author of Jack the Ripper's Secret Confession.
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