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Barnard, Robert, A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie, London: Collins, 1980
Bayard, Pierre, Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?: The Murderer Who Eluded Hercule Poirot and Deceived Agatha Christie, London: Fourth Estate, 2000
Behre, Frank, Get, Come, and Go, Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1973
Behre, Frank, Studies in Agatha Christie’s Writings, Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1967
Bloom, Harold (ed.), Modern Critical Views: Agatha Christie, New York: Chelsea House, 2002
Bryan, George B., Black Sheep, Red Herrings and Blue Murder: The Proverbial Agatha Christie, Bern: Peter Lang, 1993
Campbell, Mark, The Pocket Essential Agatha Christie, Harpenden, Hertfordshire: Pocket Essentials, 2001; revised edition, 2005
Cotes, Peter, Thinking Aloud: Fragments of Autobiography, London: Peter Owen, 1993
Curran, John, Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making, London: Harper, 2009
Curran, John, Agatha Christie’s Murder in the Making: Stories and Secrets from Her Archive, London: Harper, 2011
David, Penny, More Hidden Gardens, London: Cassell Illustrated, 2004
Dommermuth-Costa, Carol, Agatha Christie: Writer of Mystery, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lerner Publications, 1997
Eames, Andrew, The 8.55 to Baghdad: From London to Iran on the Trail of Agatha Christie, New York: Overlook Press, 2005
East, Andy, The Agatha Christie Quiz Book, New York: Drake Publishers, Inc., 1975
Escott, John, Agatha Christie: Woman of Mystery, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997
Feinman, Jeffrey, The Mysterious World of Agatha Christie, New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1975
Fido, Martin, The World of Agatha Christie, London: Carlton Books, 1999
Fitzgibbon, Russell H., The Agatha Christie Companion, Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1980
Gerald, Michael C., The Poisonous World of Agatha Christie, Austin, Texas: University of Texas, 1993
Gill, Gillian, Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries, New York: Free Press, 1990
Gregg, Hubert, Agatha Christie and All That Mousetrap, London: William Kimber, 1980
Hack, Richard, Duchess of Death: The Unauthorized Biography of Agatha Christie, Beverley Hills, California: Phoenix Books, 2009
Haining, Peter, Agatha Christie’s Poirot, London: Boxtree, 1995
Haining, Peter, Agatha Christie: Murder in Four Acts, London: Virgin, 1990
Hart, Anne, The Life and Times of Hercule Poirot, London, Pavilion Books, 1990
Hart, Anne, The Life and Times of Miss Jane Marple, London: Macmillan, 1985
Hawthorne, Bret, Agatha Christie’s Devon, Wellington, Somerset: Halsgrove, 2009
Hiscock, Eric, Last Boat to Folly Bridge, London: Cassell, 1970
Holgate, Mike, Stranger Than Fiction: Agatha Christie’s True Crime Inspirations, Stroud, Gloucestershire: History Press, 2010
Hurdle, Judith, The Getaway Guide to Agatha Christie’s England, Oakland, California: RDR Books, 1999
Kaska, Kathleen, What’s Your Agatha Christie IQ?, Secaucus, New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1996
Keating, H.R.F. (ed.), Agatha Christie, First Lady of Crime, London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977
Langton, Jane, Agatha Christie’s Devon, Bodmin: Bossiney Books, 1990
Light, Alison, Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars, London: Routledge, 1991
Macaskill, Hilary, Agatha Christie at Home, London: Frances Lincoln, 2009
Maida, Patricia and Spornick, Nicholas, Murder She Wrote: A Study of Agatha Christie’s Detective Fiction, Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1982
Mallowan, Max, Mallowan’s Memoirs, London: Collins, 1977
Martin, Deborah (ed.), The Official Guide to Agatha Christie in Devon, Paignton, Devon: Creative Media Publishing, 2009
McCall, Henrietta, The Life of Max Mallowan: Archaeology and Agatha Christie, London: The British Museum Press, 2001
Morgan, Janet, Agatha Christie: A Biography, London: Collins, 1984
Morselt, Ben, An A–Z of the Novels and Short Stories of Agatha Christie, Paradise Valley, Arizona: Phoenix Publishing Associates, 1985
Murdoch, Derrick, The Agatha Christie Mystery, Toronto: Paguarian Press, 1976
Norman, Andrew, Agatha Christie: The Finished Portrait, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus Publishing, 2006
Osborne, Charles, The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie, London: Collins, 1982
Palmer, Scott, The Films of Agatha Christie, London: Batsford, 1993
Porter, Tony, The Great White Palace: Agatha Christie and All That Jazz: The Magical Story of Burgh Island and Its Hotel, New York: Doubleday, 2002
Ramsey, Gordon, Agatha Christie: Mistress of Mystery, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1967
Riley, Dick and McAllister, Pam, The Bedside, Bathtub and Armchair Guide to Agatha Christie, New York: Frederick Ungar, 1979; revised edition, New York: Frederick Ungar, 1993
Rivière, François, In the Footsteps of Agatha Christie, London: Ebury Press, 1997
Roberts, Tom, Friends and Villains, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1987
Robyns, Gwen, The Mystery of Agatha Christie, New York: Doubleday, 1978
Rowland, Susan, From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell: British Women Fiction Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001
Ryan, Richard T., Agatha Christie Trivia, Boston: Quinlan Press, 1987
Sanders, Denis and Lovallo, Len, The Agatha Christie Companion: The Complete Guide to the Life and Works of Agatha Christie, New York: Delacorte, 1984; revised edition, New York: Berkley Books, 1989
Santangelo, Elena, Dame Agatha’s Shorts, Rock Hill, South Carolina: Bella Rosa Books, 2009
Saunders, Peter, The Mousetrap Man, London: Collins, 1972
Shaw, Marion and Vanacker, Sabine, Reflecting on Miss Marple, London: Routledge, 1991
Sova, Dawn B., Agatha Christie A–Z: The Essential Reference to Her Life and Writings, New York: Facts on File, 1996
Thompson, Laura, Agatha Christie: An English Mystery, London: Headline Review, 2007
Toye, Randall, The Agatha Christie Who’s Who, London: Frederick Muller, 1980
Toye, Randall and Gaffney, Judith Hawkins, The Agatha Christie Crossword Puzzle Book, London: Angus and Robertson, 1981
Trümpler, Charlotte (ed.), Agatha Christie and Archaeology, London: British Museum Press, 2001
Tynan, Kathleen, Agatha: The Agatha Christie Mystery, New York: Ballantine Books, 1978
Underwood, Lynn (ed.), Agatha Christie Centenary Booklet, London: Belgrave Publishing (HarperCollins), 1990
Wagoner, Mary, Agatha Christie, New York: Twayne Publishers, 1986
Wagstaff, Vanessa and Poole, Stephen, Agatha Christie: A Reader’s Companion, London: Aurum Press, 2004
Wynne, Nancy B., The Agatha Christie Chronology, Santa Barbara, California: Ace Books, 1976
Zemboy, James, The Detective Novels of Agatha Christie, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2008
Although numerous articles have been written about Agatha Christie she gave few interviews; the most significant are marked with an asterisk.
Atticus, ‘Men, Women and Memories’, Sunday Times, 13 and 20 February 1949
*Bernstein, Marcelle, ‘Hercule Poirot Is 130 – But Then Agatha Christie Is 79’, Observer, 14 December 1969
Calder, Ritchie, ‘Agatha and I’, New Statesmen, 30 January 1976
Christie, Agatha, ‘Agatha Christie Pleads for the Tragic Family of Croydon’, Sunday Chronicle, 11 August 1929
Christie, Agatha, ‘Does a Woman’s Instinct Make Her a Good Detective?’, The Star, 14 May 1928
Christie, Agatha, ‘How I Became a Writer’, Listener, 11 August 1938
Christie, Agatha, ‘Mrs Agatha Christie: Her Own Story of Her Disappearance’, Daily Mail, 16 February 1928
Herald and Express
(Torquay), ‘The Agatha Centenary’ (three souvenir supplements issued by the Herald and Express), 5, 6 and 8 September 1990
Hicks, Rosalind, ‘Agatha Christie, My Mother’, The Times Saturday Review, 8 September 1990
Hiscock, Eric, ‘Personally Speaking’, Bookseller, 19 April 1980
*Knox, Valerie, ‘Agatha Christie at 76 Is Still Plotting Murders’, The Times, 1 December 1967
Ramsey, Gordon C., ‘A Teacher Meets Agatha Christie’, Worcester Academy Bulletin, Spring 1966
Snowdon, Lord, ‘The Unsinkable Agatha Christie’, Toronto Star, 14 December 1974
*Symons, Julian, ‘Agatha Christie Talks to Julian Symons About the Gentle Art of Murder’, Sunday Times, 15 October 1961
*Winn, Godfrey, ‘The Real Agatha Christie’, Daily Mail, 12 September 1970
*Wyndham, Francis, ‘The Algebra of Agatha Christie’, Sunday Times Weekly Review, 27 February 1966
Anon, ‘One Woman’s View of a Great English Scandal’, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 August 1976
Anon, ‘The Queen’s: The Claimant’, The Stage, 18 September 1924
Anon, ‘Stories That Thrill’, The Herald (Melbourne), 20 May 1922
Anon, supplementary material from the New York Times News Service and the Associated Press, 22 September 1978. (Because of a newspaper strike, the New York Times was not printed at that time, but records were kept, including an article to the effect that a federal judge, Lawrence W. Pierce, had refused to block distribution of a movie and novel based on Agatha Christie’s unexplained disappearance in 1926. Two lawsuits had been brought by the late writer’s estate and by her only child, Rosalind Christie Hicks, and named in the suit as defendants were Ballantine Books, Casablanca Records and Filmworks, First Artist Corporation and Warner Brothers Inc. The film Agatha, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Dustin Hoffman, a fictional speculative account of the disappearance, was subsequently released in 1979.)
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Agatha, right, with her childhood friend Dolly Freeman (Judith and Graham Gardner)
Abney Hall, Cheshire, home of the Watts family. Agatha used this setting as the basis for many of her mysteries including After the Funeral and They Do It With Mirrors (Judith and Graham Gardner)
The dining-room at Abney Hall where a young Nan and Agatha once played a trick on their elders. (Judith and Graham Gardner)
Agatha’s sister Madge, 1902 (Judith and Graham Gardner)
Standing left to right in roller skates: Agatha, Nan Watts and Reggie Lucy’s sister Muriel with friends on the Princess Pier in Torquay, 1908 (Judith and Graham Gardner)
The steamer Waikare, photographed by Nan shortly before it sank, inspired Agatha’s short story ‘The Voice in the Dark’ (Judith and Graham Gardner)
Agatha’s sister Madge and Nan by the front lake of Abney Hall (Judith and Graham Gardner)
Archie’s stepfather William Hemsley, a schoolmaster at Rugby School, after the First World War (Rugby School Archive)
Archie in the early 1920s after he had left the Royal Flying Corps and started working in the City of London (Judith and Graham Gardner)
Left to right: Archie, Major Belcher, Mrs Hyam and Agatha during the British Empire Tour (Jared Cade)
Agatha and her daughter Rosalind, 1919 (Judith and Graham Gardner)
Nan and George Kon at Le Touquet Golf Course, France, during their engagement, 1925 (Judith and Graham Gardner)
Judith, aged ten, at Brancaster, Norfolk, 1926. Judith adored Archie and loved the games he played with her and Rosalind (Judith and Graham Gardner)
Nan’s husband George, Archie and Nancy Neele on Sandwich Golf Course, Kent, 1926, photographed by Nan (Judith and Graham Gardner)
Berkshire Constabulary missing persons poster, 9 December 1926, with a composite picture of Agatha dressed in the warm clothing and walking shoes she wore when she disappeared (Berkshire Record Office)
Clairvoyant Horace Leaf who predicted Agatha was still alive (Jared Cade)
The police dragging Sherbourne Pond for Agatha’s body (British Library)
Left to right: Superintendent Goddard of the Berkshire Constabulary (Wokingham Times and Berkshire Record Office); Deputy Chief Constable Kenward of the Surrey Constabulary directing the searches (British Library); Superintendent McDowall of the West Riding Police (West Yorkshire Police)
Daily News, 11 December 1926, showing Agatha (centre) with composite pictures (left and right) depicting how she might have disguised herself to evade discovery (British Library)
Daily Mirror, 10 December 1926, showing a motor-tractor caterpillar combing the dales for Agatha, a large body of men congregating at Newlands Corner prior to the beginning of the latest search, and Archie driving up to London the previous day with Rosalind beside him; Charlotte and Mary Fisher and Peter the dog are in the back of the car (British Library)
Back page of the Daily Express, 13 December 1926: pictures showing the public searching for Agatha (top left) on foot, bicycle, motor cycle and car, during the ‘Great Sunday Hunt’; her husband Archie (middle right) did not join the thousands of searchers (British Library)
Front page of the Daily Sketch, 15 December 1926, after Agatha was found; pictures on the left show Agatha and Rosalind; on the right, Archie
was no longer suspected of killing her; diving operations for her body ceased, as did speculations regarding a hut in Clandon Wood (British Library)
Late-night Daily News reporter Sidney Campion who rushed to Harrogate on 13 December 1926 after learning that a woman resembling Agatha was staying in one of the hotels (Margery Campion)
Rosie Asher, the chambermaid, who suspected the true identity of ‘Mrs Neele’ (Patsy Robinson)
Agatha photographed by the Daily Mail leaving the Harrogate Hydro on 15 December 1926; this was the first picture taken of her after she was found alive (British Library)
Front page of the Daily Mirror, 16 December 1926. Main picture shows Agatha with her sister Madge Watts in front; right shows Agatha entering her sister’s car, sentries guarding the train at Leeds in which Agatha travelled to Manchester instead of continuing to King’s Cross, London, where crowds waited in vain (British Library)
A smiling Agatha photographed during her journey to Abney Hall after her discovery; reproduced in the London Evening News, 16 December 1926 (British Library)
The Bulletin and Scots Pictorial, 16 December 1926. The newspaper’s cartoonist, suspecting Agatha had disappeared in order to publicize her career, suggested she write a book about her adventures called ‘My Pretty Dance’. (British Library)