Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks - Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making

Zusatztext "[Curran] has organized his material as efficiently as an Agatha Christie mystery?.[His] enthusiasm for his subject carries us along." Informationen zum Autor John Curran is the longtime literary adviser to Agatha Christie’s estate. For many years he edited the official Agatha Christie newsletter and acted as consultant to the National Trust during its restoration of Greenway House, Christie’s Devon home. He lives in Dublin.  Klappentext When Agatha Christie died in 1976, at age eighty-five, she had become the world's most popular author. At the end of 2004, following the death of Christie's daughter, Rosalind, a remarkable legacy was revealed: seventy-three handwritten volumes of notes, lists, and drafts outlining all her plans for her many books, plays, and stories. Buried in this treasure trove, all in the beloved author's unmistakable handwriting, are revelations about her famous books that will fascinate anyone who has ever read or watched an Agatha Christie story. Full of details she was too modest to reveal in her own autobiography, this remarkable book includes a wealth of excerpts and pages reproduced directly from the notebooks and her letters—plus, two complete, recently discovered Hercule Poirot short stories never before published. Zusammenfassung Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks is the fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie’s long hidden notebooks, including illustrations, analyses, and two previously unpublished Hercule Poirot short stories. Not only will Christie’s legions of ardent fans find a treasure chest of new material from the author of such classics as And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express , and Death on the Nile , but Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks is also a must-read tutorial for writers who want to learn the intricacies of constructing crime novels.

Product details

• Authors: John Curran
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2011
• EAN: 9780061988370
• ISBN: 978-0-06-198837-0
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Memoirs, Crime and mystery fiction, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Biography: writers, Biography: historical, political and military, Literature: history and criticism, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, TRUE CRIME: Murder / General, LITERARY CRITICISM: Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM: Mystery & Detective, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Reference, LITERARY CRITICISM: Feminist, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Memoirs