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· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: de Gramont, Nina. The Christie Affair. St. Martijn’s Press, 2022. Hardcover.

· Nan, the first-person narrator, is relating a story from the past. However, from time to time, she interjects comments and provides commentary in the present tense.

· In Part One, “Here Lies Sister Mary,” a long time ago Nan O’Dea almost killed a woman.

· She says that the urge to murder is an intense feeling that takes over your body.

· It is frightening in retrospect, but sweet as justice in the moment.

· Agatha Christie had a fascination with murder, but she “never wanted to kill anyone” (3).

· Nan met Agatha in “the years after the Great War” (3).

· Nan liked Agatha, but at the time, Nan refused to consider Agatha's writing as being any good.

· Nan has always - and still does -...

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