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Article: Christieana.(Book Review)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie, by Charles Osborne; HarperCollins, 2000, $22.95.
Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days, by Jared Cade; Peter Owen, 2000, $53.95.
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple--Life and Times, by Anne Hart; HarperCollins, 1997, $14.95.
AGATHA CHRISTIE'S books have been a source of unfailing pleasure for me since I was about fourteen. Like the Tintin comics and the films .of Alfred Hitchcock, they have a timeless charm whose beauty is only accentuated by the passing of time. And as time goes on, you discover more and more in these enduring works--subtleties of characterisation, delicacy of line, of gesture, of ...