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BIOGRAPHY DOES THIS BIOGRAPHY SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF AGATHA CHRISTIE? ASKS JESSICA MANN
From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20070916
Author:JESSICA MANN
Agatha Christie:
An English Mystery
BY LAURA THOMPSON
HEADLINE, pounds 20, 354 pp
T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
The best biographies are labours of love and this fascinating book is just that. Laura Thompson has
read and enjoyed every word Christie published, and believes that the best of
the books 'were both perfect geometric puzzles and perfectly distilled meditations upon human nature'. Even if you think that's over the top - and I do - her enthusiasm for the work and the woman makes Thompson an ideal biographer. She even seems to share some of Christie's prejudices, ...
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