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Christie, Dame Agatha - 1891–1976, English detective story writer. Christie was married to the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, and gained much material for her later novels during his excavations in the Middle East. An extraordinarily popular author, Christie wrote over 80 books, most of them featuring one of her two famous detectives; Hercule Poirot, an egotistical Belgian, and Miss Jane

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles: A Detective Story » Read Now
by Agatha Christie. 304 pgs.

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...THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES A DETECTIVE STORY BY AGATHA CHRISTIE This book, while produced under wartime conditions, in full compliance...
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The World of Law: A Treasury of Great Writing about and in the Law: Short Stories, Plays, Essays, Accounts, Letters, Opinions, Pleas, Transcripts of Testimony, Vol. 1 ("The Witness for the Prosecution" by Agatha Christie begins on p. 258) » Read Now
by Ephraim London. 656 pgs.

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...THE WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION" by Agatha Christie. Copyright 1924 by Agatha Christie. Reprinted by per mission of Dodd, Mead...ANATOLE FRANCE: Crainquebille 258 AGATHA...
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Murder She Wrote: A Study of Agatha Christie's Detective Fiction » Read Now
by Patricia D. Maida, Nicholas B. Spornick. 199 pgs.

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...Murder She Wrote A Study of Agatha Christies Detective Fiction Patricia...Preface 1 I. Agatha Christie: The Beginning 5 II...Notes 195 Devon: Agatha Christie corrects...
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The Gentle Art of Murder: The Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie » Read Now
by Earl F. Bargainnier. 232 pgs.

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This study of the technique of Agatha Christie’s detective fiction—sixty-seven novels and over one hundred short stories—is the first extensive analysis of her accomplishment as a writer. Earl F. Bargannier demonstrates that Christie thoroughly understood the conventions of her...
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This study of the technique of Agatha Christie’s detective fiction—sixty-seven novels and over one hundred short stories—is the first extensive analysis of her accomplishment as a writer. Earl F. Bargannier demonstrates that Christie thoroughly understood the conventions of her genre and, with seemingly inexhaustible ingenuity, was able to develop for more than fifty years surprising variations within those conventions.
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Deceptive and Deadly Numbers and Letters in Christie's Double Versions of Ten Little Indians and Witness for the Prosecution, in Journal of Evolutionary Psychology » Read Now
by Frank Ardolino. 7 pgs.

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...Agatha Christie wrote mystery stories in which...Witness for the Prosecution: Agatha Christies Autobiographical Revenge Play...Witness for the Prosecution: Agatha...
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Victims or Villains: Jewish Images in Classic English Detective Fiction (Chap. 3 "Three Golden-Age Case-Studies: Christie, Sayers, and Cox") » Read Now
by Malcolm J. Turnbull. 195 pgs.

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...through the chance discovery of Agatha Christie. As a college student and neophyte...Fletchers The Mysterious Chinaman , Agatha Christies The Big Four , Margery...
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British Women Fiction Writers, 1900-1960, Vol. 1 ("Agatha Christie 1890-1976" begins on p. 21) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 196 pgs.

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...BIBLIOGRAPHY 19 AGATHA CHRISTIE 21 H. Douglas...and Conversations . 1975. AGATHA CHRISTIE 1890-1976 AGATHA MARY CLARISSA...into 63 foreign languages. Agatha Christie...
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Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary ("Agatha Christie (1890-1976)" begins on p. 58) » Read Now
by Katheen Gregory Klein. 432 pgs.

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This comprehensive bio-critical dictionary evaluates 117 widely read historical and contemporary women mystery writers and over 1,000 novels. From the sensationalist women mystery writers of the 19th century to the mid-1990s practitioners such as Margaret Maron, Karen Kijewski, and Sue Grafton, this...
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This comprehensive bio-critical dictionary evaluates 117 widely read historical and contemporary women mystery writers and over 1,000 novels. From the sensationalist women mystery writers of the 19th century to the mid-1990s practitioners such as Margaret Maron, Karen Kijewski, and Sue Grafton, this work celebrates the contributions of women writers to mystery fiction, with an emphasis on contemporary writers. Signed interpretive and evaluative essays by 86 scholar-critics who are experts in the field are 4-5 pages in length and review the totality of the writer's work. A complete mystery bibliography and selected critical bibliography are also included in each entry, and helpful appendices conclude the volume. Great Women Mystery Writers is a full-fledged critical companion by noted scholars and critics, and can be used for its critical interpretations, as a reader's advisory, and as an essential reference tool for librarian and patron alike.
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Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies (Discussion of Agatha Christie begins on p. 103) » Read Now
by Stanley Eugene Fish. 614 pgs.

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...Doing What Comes Naturally Doing What Comes Naturally Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies Stanley Fish CLARENDON PRESS...
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Variations on Three Bodies of Knowledge, in International Fiction Review » Read Now
by Gerhard van der Linde, Els Wouters. 15 pgs.

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...respectively by Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and Georges Simenon, namely...the most famous creation of Agatha Christie (1890-1976). She...
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Modernism and Mystery: The Curious Case of the Lost Generation, in Twentieth Century Literature » Read Now
by Carolyn A. Durham. 22 pgs.

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...with Joyce were reading Agatha Christie at night. (163-64...understood that in the 1990s even Agatha Christie herself is "spending her days...far from viewing Joyce and...