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020			_a9781681776538 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1681776537 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1027705620 _z(OCoLC)992564021
043			_ae-uk-en
092			_aChristie A. _bT473
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aThompson, Laura, _d1964- _eauthor. _9314943
245	1	0	_aAgatha Christie : _ba mysterious life / _cLaura Thompson.
250			_aFirst Pegasus books hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bPegasus Books, _c2018.
264		2	_bW.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
264		4	_c©2018
300			_a534 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [490]-520) and index.
505	0		_aThe villa at Torquay -- The young Miss Miller -- The husband -- The child -- The secret adversary -- The quarry -- The second husband -- War -- English murder -- The late years -- God's mark -- The works of Agatha Christie.
520			_a"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"--dust jacket.
600	1	0	_aChristie, Agatha, _d1890-1976. _920607
650		0	_aWomen novelists, English _y20th century _vBiography. _9221615
650		0	_aNovelists, English _y20th century _vBiography. _9138535
650		0	_aDetective and mystery stories, English _xHistory and criticism. _929320
650		0	_aWomen and literature _zEngland _xHistory _y20th century. _921908
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
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