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Christie, Agatha: Agatha Christie: An English Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)

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From: Biography
Date: 20080101
Author:Duguid, Lindsay

Christie, Agatha

Agatha Christie: An English Mystery. Laura Thompson. London: Headline Review, 2007. 533 pp. 20 [pounds sterling].

The author "has been given full access to the unpublished letters, papers and notebooks.... [S] he wants to know what her Agatha feels and offers novelistic insights into her state of mind.... She is also informative about the later years.... But Thompson does not engage the novels themselves."

Lindsay Duguid. TLS, Oct. 5, 2007: 13.

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