Agatha Christie: A Reader's Companion

Agatha Christie: A Reader's Companion
by Vanessa Wagstaff, Stephen Poole

Agatha Christie: A Reader's Companion
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Author: Stephen Poole, Vanessa Wagstaff
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-09-01
ISBN: 1845130154
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Aurum Press

Book Reviews of Agatha Christie: A Reader's Companion

Book Review: Pretty Special Tribute
Summary: 5 Stars

Any fan of Agatha Christie should find this book chock full of delightful and sometimes eye-opening visuals and facts. The press summary does a fine job, and frankly can't be improved on. I add my voice to encourage Amazon mystery buffs, who must number on the hundreds of thousands, to give it a try.

The book can be gently perused for an overview of Agatha Christie's home sites, travel locations, and the like. Ms Chrisite used her own backdrop to a far greater extent than many people might imagine. Anyone reading this book should certainly come away not only with a better sense for place and image the next time you begin one of her mysteries, but also for the sharpness of vision she brought to her best writing.

A chronological listing of the works is convenient, and all in all the book as a whole is quite charming. I like it a great deal, and can't imagine an Agatha Christie fan being disappointed.

Note: Pictures of the many book covers showcase the difference the Atlantic ocean made during the height of Christie's fame: the English covers (and titles) are sometimes marked with an ugly racism already tabu in America.

This is also available in paperback.

Summary of Agatha Christie: A Reader's Companion

Other crime writers may come and go, but Agatha Christie maintains her enduring appeal, and for her millions of fans, this book is the next best thing to a new Christie novel. The authors have assembled a mouthwatering feast of period memorabilia?jackets and bindings of first editions from both sides of the Atlantic, stills from films and television series, photographs of the places and buildings that Christie used as settings for her stories, reviews and magazine features?all of which transports the reader back into the world inhabited by Christie and her characters. Each of her novels is discussed in the order of its publication, with a plot summary, background information on Christie?s own life at the time the book was written, an account of its critical reception, and details of subsequent films and TV series. The reader is thus able to trace Christie?s career as an author, and the way in which her detectives were introduced and developed, while following, in parallel, her own life and travels.

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