Author : Max Mallowan
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,77 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Archaeologists
ISBN : 9780007331246
Agatha Christie's widower's recollections of his archaeological triumphs and life with Agatha.
Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0007353227
Agatha Christie’s ‘most absorbing mystery’ – her own autobiography.
Author : Laura Thompson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 30,69 MB
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1681777118
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.
Author : Lucy Worsley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 11,72 MB
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1639362533
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural historian Lucy Worsley. "Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was." Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was “just” an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn’t? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why—despite all the evidence to the contrary—did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure? She was born in 1890 into a world that had its own rules about what women could and couldn’t do. Lucy Worsley’s biography is not just of a massively, internationally successful writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley’s biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realize what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was—truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.
Author : Hilary Macaskill
Publisher : Otter-Barry Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,28 MB
Release : 2023-09-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781914902000
This new and revised edition of Hilary Macaskill's classic book, with many new illustrations, offers an insight into the life and work of the world's bestselling author. Hilary Macaskill examines the houses that meant most to Agatha Christie, including her childhood home, Ashfield, in Torquay; Winterbrook in Oxfordshire, and, above all, Greenway, soaring above the River Dart and Agatha's favorite home from 1938 to the end of her life in 1976 (though requisitioned in the Second World War by the Admiralty, and from 1943 to 1945 home also to the United States Coast Guard). The author also explores more temporary abodes, not only a succession of flats and houses in London (mainly in Kensington and Chelsea) but also the homes she set up at the digs (mostly in the Middle East) that she traveled to with her archaeologist husband, Max Mallowan, and the hotels - notably the Moorland Hotel on Dartmoor, to which she adjourned in the grip of writer's block to complete her first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and the Burgh Island Hotel, a major inspiration for And Then There Were None and Evil Under the Sun.
Author : John Curran
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 15,70 MB
Release : 2010-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0062006525
A fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie's seventy-three private notebooks, including illustrations and two unpublished Poirot stories When Agatha Christie died in 1976, at age eighty-five, she had become the world's most popular author. With sales of more than two billion copies worldwide, in more than one hundred countries, she had achieved the impossible—more than one book every year since the 1920s, every one a bestseller. So prolific was Agatha Christie's output—sixty-six crime novels, twenty plays, six romance novels under a pseudonym and more than one hundred and fifty short stories—it was often claimed that she had a photographic memory. Was this true? Or did she resort over those fifty-five years to more mundane methods of working out her ingenious crimes? Following the death of Agatha's daughter, Rosalind, at the end of 2004, a remarkable legacy was revealed. Unearthed among her affairs at the family home of Greenway were Agatha Christie's private notebooks, seventy-three handwritten volumes of notes, lists and drafts outlining all her plans for her many books, plays and stories. Buried in this treasure trove, all in her unmistakable handwriting, are revelations about her famous books that will fascinate anyone who has ever read or watched an Agatha Christie story. How did the infamous twist in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd really come about? Which very famous Poirot novel started life as an adventure for Miss Marple? Which books were designed to have completely differ-ent endings, and what were they? What were the plot ideas that she considered but rejected? Full of details she was too modest to reveal in her own autobiography, this remarkable new book includes a wealth of excerpts and pages reproduced directly from the notebooks and her letters, plus, for the first time, two newly discovered complete Hercule Poirot short stories never before published.
Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007422709
A wealthy family A fatal cup of tea
Author : Henrietta McCall
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 30,2 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This is the first full-length biography of Sir Max Mallowan (1904-78), archaeologist and husband of Agatha Christie. Trained by the great Leonard Woolley at the site of the royal cemetery at Ur in the mid 1920s, Max Mallowan then excavated at previously untried sites in north-eastern Syria. After the Second World War, he returned to Iraq to supervise over a period of 12 years the excavation of the important city of Nimrud.
Author : Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 32,86 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
MALLOWAN, HUSBAND OF AGATHA CHRISTIE, TELLS OF HIS BOYHOOD AT LANCING, HIS ELECTION AS A FELLOW OF ALL SOULS, AND HIS WORK AS TRUSTEE OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. HE DEVOTES FOUR CHAPTERS TO HIS WIFE.
Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 1992-10
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 9780785748588
A corpse is discovered in the home of Col. and Mrs. Bantry, and when suspicion fall on the colonel, Miss Marple set out to prove her innocence.
