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Агата Кристи – Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks (страница 1)

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From Notebook 4 a tantalising glimpse of a project, never realised, from the 1960s.

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Fully revised and expanded edition published 2016

First published in Great Britain in two volumes by HarperCollinsPublishers as Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making 2009, 2011

Copyright © John Curran 2009, 2011, 2016

Agatha Christie Notebooks, The Man Who Knew, The Incident of the Dog’s Ball, The Case of the Caretaker’s Wife and The Capture of Cerberus copyright © Christie Archive Trust 2009, 2011

Quotations copyright © Agatha Christie Limited 2009, 2011

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Source ISBN: 9780008129620

Ebook Edition © October 2016 ISBN: 9780008129644

Version: 2017-04-11

Dedication

For

Joseph, Conor,

Francis, Oisin and Lorcan

And for

Mathew, Lucy and Mahler,

without whom …

Contents

Cover

Title Page

1. The Beginning of a Career

2. The Evidence of the Notebooks

3. Agatha Christie at Work

4. Rule of Three

5. Crime Writers in the Notebooks

Part I: The First Decade

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Man in the Brown Suit

The Secret of Chimneys/Chimneys

The Mystery of the Blue Train

My Favourite Stories and ‘The Man Who Knew’

Part II: The Second Decade

‘The Bird with the Broken Wing’

‘Manx Gold’

The Murder at the Vicarage

The Sittaford Mystery

‘The Mystery of the Baghdad/Spanish Chest’

Peril at End House

‘The Second Gong’

‘Death on the Nile’

Lord Edgware Dies

Three Act Tragedy

Death in the Clouds

‘How Does Your Garden Grow?’