Agatha Christie's Murder in the Making

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• Format: Reference Book

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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 the 1920s, John Curran examines the conventions of detective novels as they existed then and reveals how Agatha Christie's publisher talked her into changing the ending of her very first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, a move that almost certainly changed the fortunes of not only her career but also the future of detective fiction. For the very first time, this book prints Agatha's original ending, painstakingly transcribed from the hand-written draft in one of her earliest notebooks.

As well as revealing more than a dozen unpublished book ideas, Agatha Christie’s Murder in the Making contains two unseen short stories from her archives – The Man Who Knew and an early Miss Marple draft, The Case of the Caretaker's Wife.