The Boston Globe, September 15th, 1990
Agatha Christie has won enormous fame but little respect. This is the major theme of Gillian Gill's new biography, "Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries." "I originally had no intention of writing a biography of Christie," said Gill, 48, a specialist in modern fiction and feminist theory who teaches at Harvard University. "I began reading her mysteries while doing preliminary research for a book I planned to write on later British women detective writers." But the British-born Gill was so captivated by Christie's "fictional universe and brilliant mind" that she went no further. "I want...
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