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?

He's the man who dunnit!

Books Editor John Spain on the Dubliner with a passion for mystery who deciphered Agatha Christie's secret notebooks

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?

John Curran is a Dubliner who worked for the City Council since he left school in the 1970s. Up to a few years ago he was toiling away happily in the Planning section, and before that in Motor Tax.

But John was a man with a ...

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