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It could reasonably be supposed that each Agatha Christie title has its own Notebook. This is emphatically not the case. In only five instances is a Notebook devoted to a single title. Notebooks 26 and 42 are entirely dedicated to Third Girl; Notebook 68 concerns only Peril at End House; Notebook 2 is A Caribbean Mystery; Notebook 46 contains nothing but extensive historical background and a rough outline for Death Comes as the End. Otherwise, every Notebook is a fascinating record of a productive brain and an industrious professional. Some examples should make this clear.

Notebook 53 contains:

Fifty pages of detailed notes for After the Funeral and A Pocket Full of Rye alternating with each other every few pages

Rough notes for Destination Unknown

A short outline of an unwritten novel

Three separate and different attempts at the radio play Personal Call

Notes for a new Mary Westmacott

Preliminary notes for Witness for the Prosecution and The Unexpected Guest

An outline for an unpublished and unperformed play, Miss Perry

Some poetry

Notebook 13 contains:

38 pages for Death Comes as the End

20 pages for Taken at the Flood

20 pages for Sparkling Cyanide

6 pages for Mary Westmacott

30 pages of a foreign Travel Diary

4 pages each for The Hollow, Curtain, N or M?

Notebook 35 contains:

75 pages for Five Little Pigs

75 pages for One, Two, Buckle my Shoe

8 pages for N or M?

4 pages for The Body in the Library

25 pages of ideas