Agatha Christie : a mysterious life

Resource Information

The work Agatha Christie : a mysterious life represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boxford Town Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Agatha Christie : a mysterious life

Title remainder

a mysterious life

Statement of responsibility

Laura Thompson

Creator

• Thompson, Laura, 1964-

Author

• Thompson, Laura, 1964-

Subject

• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary Figures
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women
• Biographies
• Biographies
• Biography
• Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976
• Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Detective and mystery stories, English
• Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism
• 1900-1999
• History
• Novelists, English
• Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography
• Women and literature
• Women and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century
• Women novelists, English
• Women novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography
• England
• Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• History
• Biography
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

"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"--Jacket

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

JJG

Dewey number

823.912092

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• plates
• facsimiles

Index

index present

LC call number

PR6005.H66

LC item number

Z884 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography