Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making [Paperback]

Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooksis the fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie’s long hidden notebooks, including illustrations, analyses, and two previously unpublished Hercule Poirot short stories. Not only will Christie’s legions of ardent fans find a treasure chest of new material from the author of such classics asAnd Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, andDeath on the Nile, butAgatha Christie’s Secret Notebooksis also a must-read tutorial for writers who want to learn the intricacies of constructing crime novels.

When Agatha Christie died in 1976, at age eighty-five, she had become the world's most popular author. At the end of 2004, following the death of Christie's daughter, Rosalind, a remarkable legacy was revealed: seventy-three handwritten volumes of notes, lists, and drafts outlining all her plans for her many books, plays, and stories. Buried in this treasure trove, all in the beloved author's unmistakable handwriting, are revelations about her famous books that will fascinate anyone who has ever read or watched an Agatha Christie story.

Full of details she was too modest to reveal in her own autobiography, this remarkable book includes a wealth of excerpts and pages reproduced directly from the notebooks and her letters—plus, two complete, recently discovered Hercule Poirot short stories never before published.

The most fascinating aspect of the notebooks is the rare glimpse they allow into the mind of a writer, especially one as imaginative as Christie....An appealing read for Christie-philes.A must-have for any ardent fan of Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot.A must for all Christie fans.Provides a unique look into the mind and working habits of one of the worlds most successful authors.Meticulously detailed and scrupulous in its judgments.A meticulously detailed study that is packed with shrewd perceptions about Christies fictiolÄ