num_pages: 534
description: A passionate and accomplished writer, Laura Thompson now turns her highly acclaimed biographical skills to Agatha Christie. Arguably the greatest crime writer in the world, thirty years after her death Christie's books still sell over four million copies worldwide a year.Thompson describes the Edwardian world in which she grew up, explores the relationships she had, including those with her two husbands and daughter, and investigates the mysteries still surrrounding Christie's life - including her disappearance in 1926.Agatha Christie is a mystery and writing about her is a detection job in itself. But, with access to all of Christie's letters, papers and writing notebooks, as well as interviews with her grandson, daughter, son-in-law and their living relations, Thompson is able to unravel not only the detailed workings of Christie's detective fiction, but the truth behind her private life as well.
language: English
title: Agatha Christie
titlecomplete: Agatha Christie
genres: British Literature, Historical, History, Mystery, Books About Books, Biography Memoir, Biography, 20th Century, Crime, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2468
awards: awardedAt: 1514793600000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1546329600000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Critical/Biographical
publisher: Headline Review