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Article: Agatha Christie: an unlikely obituary. (Latin America: Private Eyes & Time Travelers)
- Article from:
- The Literary Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
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IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS THREE DIFFERENT PEOPLE HAVE ASKED why didn't I write an obituary for Agatha Christie or an article about her under the pretext of her death. I told all three the same thing: that to me, this woman's books seem unreadable, because the ones I read or tried to read, have caused one of two experiences for me: I have found out who the murderer was on page 40, because of my own intuition for which she isn't to blame (for instance, I think that if a gentleman's only personal characteristic is that he winds all the clocks in the house everyday, he must be the criminal); or, on the contrary, I finish the novel not knowing which way is up, and I can't ...