Agatha Christie’s Murder in the Making: Stories and Secrets from Her Archive - includes an unseen Miss Marple Story
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John Curran. Agatha Christie’s Murder in the Making: Stories and Secrets from Her Archive - includes an unseen Miss Marple Story
Agatha Christie’s Murder in the Making
John Curran
Dedication
Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
1
Rule of Three
2
The First Decade 1920–1929
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
UNUSED IDEAS: ONE
3
Favourite Stories and ‘The Man Who Knew’
The Man Who Knew
4
The Second Decade 1930–1939
UNUSED IDEAS: TWO
5
‘How I Created Hercule Poirot’
6
The Third Decade 1940–1949
UNUSED IDEAS: THREE
7
Miss Marple and ‘The Case of the Caretaker’s Wife’
The Case of the Caretaker’s Wife
8
The Fourth Decade 1950–1959
UNUSED IDEAS: FOUR
9
Agatha Christie and Poison
10
The Fifth Decade 1960–1969
UNUSED IDEAS: FIVE
11
The Dark Lady …
12
The Sixth Decade 1970–1976
UNUSED IDEAS: SIX
13
Agatha Christie’s Booklists
APPENDIX 1
Agatha Christie Chronology
APPENDIX 2
Alphabetical List of Agatha Christie Titles
Index of Titles
Acknowledgements
Copyright
About the Publisher
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Stories and Secrets from her Archive
without whom …
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Van Dine 5. The culprit must be determined by logical deduction – not by accident, coincidence or unmotivated confession.
An example of confession (albeit not unmotivated) as a solution in Christie’s output is And Then There Were None. Here the entire explanation is given in the form of a confession. In this most ingenious novel, Agatha Christie set herself an almost insoluble problem – how to kill off the entire ten characters of the book and yet have an explanation at the end. The only solution would seem to be the one that she actually adopted – a confession. Confessions do feature in other novels, for example Lord Edgware Dies, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? and Crooked House, but only as confirmation of what has already been revealed, while Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case contains one of the most shocking confessions in literary history …
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