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Agatha's vanishing act of 11 days.(Features)(Books)

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From: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 19990812
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Agatha christie

and the eleven

missing DAYS

By Jared Cade

Peter Owen

258 pp., $39.95

Agatha Christie was one of the creators of the modern English murder mystery. Along with Dorothy Sayers, Margery Allingham, and Edgar Wallace, among others, she invigorated and transformed a rather musty, Gothic, cobwebbed genre into something streamlined, bright, and modern. Her plots were complicated, artful, cunningly conceived, and backed up by a good deal of technical knowledge of subjects like poison.

The youngest child of an American father and a British ...

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