Agatha Christie : an elusive woman /
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...
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New York :
Pegasus Crime,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface : Hiding in plain sight
- Part one : Victorian girl, 1890s. The house where I was born
- Insanity in the family
- The thing in the house
- Ruined
- Part two : Edwardian debutante, 1900s. Waiting for the man
- Best Victorian lavatory
- The Gezireh Palace Hotel
- Enter Archibald
- Part three : Wartime nurse, 1914-18. Torquay Town Hall
- Love and death
- Enter Poirot
- The Moorland Hotel
- Part four : Bright young author, 1920s. Enter London
- Enter Rosalind
- The British Mission
- Thrillers
- Part five : 1926. Sunningdale
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- Disappearance
- The Harrogate Hydropathic Hotel
- Reappearance
- Part six : Plutocratic period, 1930s. Mesopotamia
- Enter Max
- I think I will marry you
- Eight houses
- The golden age
- Part seven : Wartime worker, 1940s. Beneath the bombs
- A daughter's a daughter
- Life is rather complicated
- By Mary Westmacott
- Part eight : Taken at the flood, 1950s. A big expensive dream
- They came to Baghdad
- Christie-land after the war
- Second row in the stalls
- A charming grandmother
- Part nine : Not swinging, 1960s. The mystery of the Christie fortune
- A queer lot
- Lady detectives
- To know when to go
- Part ten : Curtain, 1970s. Winterbrook
- After the funeral.