Charles Osborne - The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie - A biographical companion to the works of Agatha Christie

THE AGATHA CHRISTIE COLLECTION

1 The Mysterious Affair at Styles

2 The Secret Adversary

3 Murder on the Links

4 The Man in the Brown Suit

5 Poirot Investigates

6 The Secret of Chimneys

7 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

8 The Big Four

9 The Mystery of the Blue Train

10 The Seven Dials Mystery

11 Partners in Crime

12 The Mysterious Mr Quin

* * ADAPTED BY CHARLES OSBORNE Black Coffee

13 The Murder at the Vicarage

14 The Sittaford Mystery

15 Peril at End House

16 The Thirteen Problems

17 Lord Edgware Dies

18 The Hound of Death

19 Murder on the Orient Express

20 The Listerdale Mystery

21 Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

22 Parker Pyne Investigates

23 Three Act Tragedy

24 Death in the Clouds

25 The ABC Murders

26 Murder in Mesopotamia

27 Cards on the Table

28 Dumb Witness

29 Death on the Nile

30 Murder in the Mews

31 Appointment with Death

32 Hercule Poirot’s Christmas

33 Murder is Easy

34 And Then There Were None

35 Sad Cypress

36 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

37 Evil Under the Sun

38 N or M?

39 The Body in the Library

40 Five Little Pigs

41 The Moving Finger

42 Towards Zero

43 Death Comes as the End

44 Sparkling Cyanide

45 The Hollow

46 The Labours of Hercules

47 Taken at the Flood

48 Crooked House

49 A Murder is Announced

50 They Came to Baghdad

51 Mrs McGinty’s Dead

52 They Do It With Mirrors

53 After the Funeral

54 A Pocket Full of Rye

55 Destination Unknown

* * ADAPTED BY CHARLES OSBORNE Spider’s Web

56 Hickory Dickory Dock

57 Dead Man’s Folly

58 4.50 From Paddington

* * ADAPTED BY CHARLES OSBORNE The Unexpected Guest

59 Ordeal By Innocence

60 Cat Among the Pigeons

61 The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

62 The Pale Horse

63 The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side

64 The Clocks

65 A Caribbean Mystery

66 At Bertram’s Hotel

67 Third Girl

68 Endless Night

69 By the Pricking of My Thumbs

70 Hallowe’en Party

71 Passenger to Frankfurt

72 Nemesis

73 Elephants Can Remember

74 Postern of Fate

75 Poirot’s Early Cases

76 Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case

77 Sleeping Murder

78 Miss Marple’s Final Cases

79 Problem at Pollensa Bay

80 While the Light Lasts

* ADAPTED BY CHARLES OSBORNE

THE LIFE AND CRIMES

OF

AGATHA CHRISTIE

CHARLES OSBORNE

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Revised and updated edition 1999

Copyright © Charles Osborne 1982, 1999

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For Joe Hansen, crime novelist in the Christie mould, in Los Angeles; and Ken Thomson, his sometime accomplice in publishing, in London.

Cover

Title Page THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF AGATHA CHRISTIE CHARLES OSBORNE

Copyright

Dedication For Joe Hansen, crime novelist in the Christie mould, in Los Angeles; and Ken Thomson, his sometime accomplice in publishing, in London.

Preface

1 Appearance and Disappearance

2 The Vintage Years

3 War and Peace

4 ‘The Mousetrap’ and After

5 Towards the Last Cases

Plate Section

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