Agatha Christie: A Biography

Agatha Christie: A Biography
Janet Morgan

Janet Morgan’s definitive and authorised biography of Agatha Christie, with a new retrospective foreword by the author.Agatha Christie (1890–1976), the world’s bestselling author, is a public institution. Her creations, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, have become fiction’s most legendary sleuths and her ingenuity has captured the imagination of generations of readers. But although she lived to a great age and was prolific, she remained elusively shy and determinedly private.Given sole access to family papers and other protected material, Janet Morgan’s definitive biography unravels Agatha Christie’s life, work and relationships, creating a revealing and faithfully honest portrait. The book has delighted readers of Christie’s detective stories for more than 30 years with its clear view of her career and personality, and this edition includes a new foreword by the author reflecting on the longevity of Agatha Christie’s extraordinary success and popularity.

JANET MORGAN

Agatha Christie

A Biography

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Previously published in paperback by Fontana 1985

First published by William Collins Sons and Co.Ltd 1984

Copyright © Janet Morgan 1984

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Contents

Cover (#u77d5b9da-9309-56d5-b427-720d1037bc41)

Title Page (#u90c0afaa-1379-574e-b211-9954c5ff0ded)

Copyright (#u5b339a08-4590-56c8-99fb-e6af9411f5e4)

Dedication (#uc0aa0be5-5738-5edb-a96c-a52185f55f6c)

Foreword (#u2c06700f-4398-5f0b-9b6e-7e69dbdbe6fa)

Preface (#ucbc59069-226d-5d0c-83c3-47b420322f30)

1 ‘The Millers, a family’ (#u326e07c8-2c83-506d-a58b-e82a3aac1350)

2 ‘In private and in your own time’ (#u148a4172-3f01-57e4-bd03-40d2dfcde3fb)

3 ‘A possession that is yours to do what you like with’ (#u084ee000-2511-59e9-a963-54f53cff2c25)

4 ‘She will have to make up her mind between them some time’ (#u463fa8cf-f303-568a-9688-45a4b5b7184a)

5 ‘He will change your entire life’ (#u599a0ae6-3b2c-5c8c-aad1-33b05360e09b)

6 ‘This waiting is rather hard but all is ready’ (#u5fb648ae-923c-5cf1-bb60-84853b3f3afa)

7 ‘Menace and murder and sudden death’ (#u4607abc4-8d9c-5997-b3ab-1ffbc89c93e9)

8 ‘1st Class! Good oh! Right here’ (#u9617d362-d58a-52d7-9469-f2b12dc5f43a)

9 ‘The next I write will be the 5th’ (#litres_trial_promo)

10 ‘I do not think she knows who she is’ (#litres_trial_promo)

11 ‘A ghastly ten days’ (#litres_trial_promo)

12 ‘An unquestionably genuine loss of memory’ (#litres_trial_promo)

13 ‘London – Paris – Lausanne – Milan – Venice’ (#litres_trial_promo)

14 ‘An idea I’ve never ever considered’ (#litres_trial_promo)

15 ‘Corpses and stiffs’ (#litres_trial_promo)

16 ‘A nice parallel track’ (#litres_trial_promo)

17 ‘Things all seem to come at once’ (#litres_trial_promo)

18 ‘Only an interruption’ (#litres_trial_promo)

19 ‘A certain amount of fêting’ (#litres_trial_promo)

20 ‘Digging up the dead’ (#litres_trial_promo)

21 ‘All the panoply and misdirection of the conjuror’s art’ (#litres_trial_promo)

22 ‘I shall go on enjoying myself’ (#litres_trial_promo)

23 ‘An onlooker and an observer’ (#litres_trial_promo)

24 ‘Like a cinema film run backwards’ (#litres_trial_promo)