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Агата Кристи
Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks
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Copyright
Dedication
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Foreword
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Introduction
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The Beginning of a Career
Poirot Investigates …
Verdict …
Poirot and the Big Four
Hercule Poirot
Readability
Plotting
Fairness
Productivity
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The Evidence of the Notebooks
… idea in an exercise book …
… what I invariably do is lose the exercise book …
… I usually have about half a dozen on hand …
… if I had kept all these things neatly sorted …
… and filed …
… and labelled …
… something scribbled down …
… a kind of sketch of a plot …
… it often stimulates me, if not to write that identical plot at least to write something else …
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Agatha Christie at Work
Dumb Witnesses
Pigeon among the Cats
Motive and Opportunity
Remembered Deaths
The ABC of Murder
Ten Little Possibilities
Destinations Unknown
Surprise, Surprise!
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Rule of Three
THE RULES OF DETECTIVE FICTION – POE, KNOX, VAN DINE
Edgar Allan Poe: inventor of the detective story
The brilliant amateur detective
The less-than-brilliant narrator-friend
The wrongly suspected person
The sealed room
The unexpected solution
The ‘armchair detective’ and pure reasoning
The interpretation of a code
The trail of false clues laid by the murderer
The unmasking of the least likely suspect
Psychological deduction
The most obvious solution
S.S. Van Dine’s ‘Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories’
Ronald Knox’s Detective Story Decalogue
Agatha Christie’s Rule of Three
Fairness
The crime
The detective
The murderer
The murder method
To be avoided
The bogus séance to force a confession
The unmasking of a twin or look-alike
The cipher/code-letter
The comparison of cigarette butts
RULE OF THREE: SUMMARY
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Crime Writers in the Notebooks
The Detection Club in the Notebooks
Other Crime Writers in the Notebooks
Agatha Christie in the Notebooks
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The First Decade 1920–1929
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
21 January 1921
THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES
The Man in the Brown Suit
22 August 1924
The Secret of Chimneys
12 June 1925
The Mystery of the Blue Train
29 March 1928
My Favourite Stories and ‘The Man Who Knew’
THE MAN WHO KNEW
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