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Article: Books: Murder most cosy Agatha Christie's popularity is a mystery Charles Spencer cannot fathom
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- August 1, 1999
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The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie:
A Biographical Companion to the Works of Agatha Christie
by Charles Osborne
HarperCollins, pounds 16.99, 421 pp
AT THE very least, Charles Osborne deserves a medal for
persistence. He has ploughed through everything Agatha Christie ever
wrote, and somehow managed to avoid being incarcerated by the men in
white coats. Indeed he still claims to enjoy the so-called Queen of
Crime, and in recent years has turned two of her plays into novels.
There has always been something engagingly subversive about
Charles Osborne, who has combined a prolific career as an author with
a long stint as literature director of the Arts Council and a shorter
one as theatre ...