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Agatha's genteel way with murder; Portrait of a crime writer: Agatha Christie's upper-middle-class exterior hid a deeply insecure personality.

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20070824
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Byline: A.N. Wilson

AGATHA CHRISTIE: An nglish Mystery by Laura Thompson (Headline, [pounds sterling]20)

AGATHA CHRISTIE is a tough nut to crack for a biographer, not least because, toquote a friend's judgment, 'she was a very, very nice person'.

Most of those who met her, when she was a famous author, saw only a plump,sybaritic, kindly woman, whose intensely conservative behaviour, anduncompromisingly pre-World War I, upper-middle-class manners gave no clue as tothe origins of her genius and it isn't too strong a word.

She is the greatest of the English crime ...

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