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 Biography of Agatha Christie
1062 words, approx. 3.5 pages
 Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was the best selling mystery author of all time and the only writer to have created two major detectives, Poirot and Marple. She also wrote the longest-running play in the modern theater, The Mousetrap. The daughter of an Amer... summary from source:
Biography of Agatha Christie
7871 words, approx. 26.2 pages
 Agatha Christie is a towering figure in the history of crime literature for two reasons. First, she consolidated the form of the pure mystery novel, achieving in five or six of her books puzzle stories that set a standard unlikely ever to be decisively b... summary from source:
 Biography of Agatha (Mary Clarissa) Christie
7687 words, approx. 25.6 pages
Agatha Christie is a towering figure in the history of crime literature for two reasons. First, she consolidated the form of the pure mystery novel, achieving in five or six of her books puzzle stories that set a standard unlikely ever to be decisively b...
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 The Mysterious Affair at Styles Information
3,388 words, approx. 11 pages
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by Agatha Christie. It was written in 1916 and was first published by John Lane in the US in October 1920 and in the UK by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on February 1 1921. The UK edition...
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 The Independent - London Mysterious affairs re-styled
10/05/2007: 800 words, approx. 3 pages Jane Jakeman Agatha Christie:an English mystery By Laura Thompson REVIEW Pounds 20 (534pp) Pounds 18 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897 Who cares who killed Roger Ackroyd?" asked the critic Edmund Wilson in 1944. Yet somehow it is Wilson himself who... summary from source:
The Economist (US) A mysterious affair of style. (Agatha Christie's centenary)
09/29/1990: 803 words, approx. 3 pages THE Bible and Shakespeare have had the churches and the schools working for them; but the third-biggest seller, Agatha Christie, achieved her rank entirely through the workings of the market. Even her successes in communist-ruled countries have owed everything to public demand, nothing...
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 Critical Essay by David I. Grossvogel
1,886 words, approx. 6 pages
Agatha Christie wrote her first detective story, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920. Thereafter, and for over half a century, she was the most popular purveyor of the genre. During that time she wrote works that would not fit quite as well within the narrowest definition of the genre. But detective fiction is a form that loses definition in proportion as it extends beyond its intentional narrowness—a truism confirmed by the lasting appeal of even as rudimentary a work as The Mysterious Affair a... Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 96%Crime Fiction - Subversion of the Genre
1,780 words, approx. 6 pages
This essay explores how Agatha's Christie's "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" embodies the conventions of crime fiction. Also explores how "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Skull Beneath the Skin" subvert the conventions.
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