Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780062006523 (0062006525)
Publish date: March 30th 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
As I've previously mentioned in an update, this is a book that is really aimed at level 10 Christie fans. It spoils the solutions of many of the books, although sometimes the spoiler is fairly oblique. For someone who is just a casual Christie reader, it wouldn't make much sense or, even, be particu...
The other unpublished work that was included in Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, The Mystery of the Dog's Ball was actually the basis for Christie's full-length novel Dumb Witness (1937). The character's names are different, but apparently several scenes are identical. I won't say this short s...
One of the previously unpublished Poirot mysteries in short story form, The Capture of Cerberus is almost purely allegorical with a fantasy ending. It was impossible for me to read it without picturing Hitler, which was no doubt Christie's intent, but knowing what history now shows us, I found the ...
I stopped reading this book after about a hundred pages - not because it wasn't good, it was, but because I haven't read all of Christie's canon yet, and this books is 100% geared towards those that have (or have at least read a majority of it). The author states from the beginning that there are m...
Jestem wielką fanką twórczości Agaty Christie, dlatego pojawienie się na rynku tego tytułu było dla mnie ogromnym wydarzeniem. Autor bardzo skrupulatnie przeanalizował zapiski autorki, ukazując jak rodziły się jej kryminały. Moim zdaniem poradził sobie z tym wyśmienicie, gdyż w notatnikach brak było...
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