Books about Christie

Using family papers and other protected material, Janet Morgan sheds light on Agatha Christie's life, work and relationships.

The definitive companion to the POIROT novels, films and TV appearances. 'My name is Hercule Poirot and I am probably the greatest detective in the world.' The dapper, moustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head, curious mannerisms and inordinate respect for his own 'little grey cells' has solved some of ...

'I have had a lot of experience in solving different little problems that have arisen.' Most of the 'little problems' tackled by Miss Marple occurred in the pretty rural village of St Mary Mead and came in the shape of murder, robbery and blackmail. In the 40 years of her ...

A passionate and accomplished writer, Laura Thompson now turns her highly acclaimed biographical skills to Agatha Christie, arguably the greatest crime writer in the world. Thompson describes the Edwardian world in which Christie grew up; explores the relationships she had, including those with her two husbands and daughter; and investigates ...

Her story, in her own words and now in her own voice. This new release of Agatha Christie's autobiography includes a CD of the famous voice recordings she dictated forty years ago that were only discovered in 2008. Spread over fourteen tracks the CD contains over an hour's worth of ...

Agatha Christie's fascinating memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan. Agatha Christie was already well known as a crime writer when she accompanied her husband, Max Mallowan, to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s. She took enormous interest in all ...

Following the death of Agatha's daughter, Rosalind, at the end of 2004, a remarkable secret was revealed. Unearthed among her affairs at the family home of Greenway were Agatha Christie's private notebooks, 73 handwritten volumes of notes, lists and drafts outlining all her plans for her many books, plays and ...

Agatha Christie's career spanned over 50 years and 80 books; given that she also wrote plays, poems and fragments of memoir, it is at times hard to see how she managed to pay so much attention to the fine details through which her detective stories both inform and misdirect. Osborne ...

Articles, photos, and film posters; synopses of the novels, plays, and short story collections (without telling whodunit!), Christie's own comments on her work, a Christie mystery map, puzzles, and poems. Includes Emma Lathen on Jessica Fletcher; Tommy and Tuppence; a filmography and video listing.

In this follow-up volume to the award-winning Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, Christie archivist and expert John Curran leads the reader through the six decades of Agatha’s writing career, unearthing some remarkable clues to her success and a number of never-before-published excerpts and stories from her archives. Starting his investigation in ...