On the personal side, she misses her mother who died two years earlier and she doesn’t accept that her husband is leaving her for another woman. In December 1926, the Queen of Crime Agatha Christie was going through a lot both personally and professionally. H.Although I am a big fan of Agatha Christie and her novels, I don’t know much about her personal life and this novel gave me the chance to find out more about her so I’d like to thank Jess Barratt and Simon & Schuster for providing me with a copy of the book. Review: A NECESSARY EVIL, Abir Mukherjee.

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The author says that he tried to 'make sure the facts surrounding Agatha's disappearance in 1926 were as accurate as possible.' He has even included real characters from the time, including Archie Christie, and the police detective William Kenward.

This work of fiction presents a story of what caused her disappearance in 1926. It is indeed 41 years since the death of Agatha Christie. So here is the first of the puzzles this novel, mainly using Agatha Christie as narrator. I too served my solicitors with notice to the same effect. However, she agreed to be interviewed on condition that the resulting volume should not be published until at least forty years after her death. When I first mentioned the idea of this book to her, she was understandably reluctant. He tells readers that the novel is the result of an agreement between himself and Mrs Christie. This novel opens with an 'Editor's Note', from someone called John Davison. I'm not sure there is even a grain of truth in its explanation of what happened to Agatha Christie in those days in which she disappeared in 1926. To be honest, I wouldn't have read it if it wasn't for the reference to Agatha Christie in the blurb. In the past I have written about what I call 'coat-tails' books, those that attach themselves to the success of others. To thwart an adversary determined to exploit her genius for murder to

Agatha must use every ounce of her cleverness and resourcefulness

Her rescuer is no guardianĪngel rather, he is a blackmailer of the most insidious, manipulative Of someone pulling her to safety from the rush of the incoming train.īegins a terrifying sequence of events. Light touch on her back, causing her to lose her balance, then a sense In the knowledge that her husband Archie is having an affair. To visit her literary agent, boards a train, preoccupied and flustered Learn about your husband and his mistress.' This edition published by Simon & Schuster 2017.

A talent for murder by andrew wilson