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Article: It's a remarkable story, worthy of an Agatha Christie plot. How did an Irishman become the world's greatest expert on such a quintessentially English writer as Agatha Christie, deciphering for the first time the 73 secret notebooks in which Christie planned her life's work?
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- Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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