Worsley, Lucy

Summary: "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 Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHRISTIE, AGATHA WOR

Benedict, Marie

Summary: In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. Investigators find her empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the car—strange for a frigid night. Her World War I veteran husband and her daughter have no knowledge of her whereabouts, and England unleashes an unprecedented manhunt to find the up-and-coming mystery author. Eleven...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC BEN Book Club Kit (8 paperbacks)

Thompson, Laura

Summary: "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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CHRISTIE THO