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Swigatha

Author : Peter Sheeran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781914288159
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Swigatha written by Peter Sheeran and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swigatha came about as the result of a re-read by me of all the books by Agatha Christie that I had first encountered as a child. These books were all in paperback editions, published by Fontana and Pan in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s, and most of them were second-hand. Swigatha contains a review in chronological order of each book, including a brief look at the plot, then the characters and the attitudes of the characters at the time, supported by many quotations from the text. Each one is given a totally subjective Swigatha rating, a what-happened-next item and a few notes about some of the on-screen adaptations. It Is designed to be either read In sequence or dipped into, with the result that some background autobiographical details that are relevant to more than one story are repeated. The review also considers the actual book itself: its front and back covers, its condition and so on.

Agatha Christie

Author : Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating
Publisher : Henry Holt
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Agatha Christie written by Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating and published by Henry Holt. This book was released on 1977 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H.R.F. Keating, Michael Gilbert, Dorothy B. Hughes, Julian Symons and other writers discuss the life and work of Agatha Christie.

Problem at Pollensa Bay

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 000742275X
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Problem at Pollensa Bay written by Agatha Christie and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories featuring some of Agatha Christie’s best-loved detectives – Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, Mr Satterthwaite and Harley Quin...

Agatha Christie on Screen

Author : Mark Aldridge
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137372923
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Agatha Christie on Screen written by Mark Aldridge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive exploration of 90 years of film and television adaptations of the world’s best-selling novelist’s work. Drawing on extensive archival material, it offers new information regarding both the well-known and forgotten screen adaptations of Agatha Christie’s stories, including unmade and rare adaptations, some of which have been unseen for more than half a century. This history offers intriguing insights into the discussions and debates that surrounded many of these screen projects – something that is brought to life through previously unpublished correspondence from Christie herself and a new wide-ranging interview with her grandson, Mathew Prichard. Agatha Christie on Screen takes the reader on a journey from little known silent film adaptations, through to famous screen productions including 1974’s Murder on the Orient Express, as well as the television series of the Poirot and Miss Marple stories and, most recently, the BBC’s acclaimed version of And Then There Were None.

The Cases of Blue Ploermell

Author : James Thurber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781950347322
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Cases of Blue Ploermell written by James Thurber and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1923, the young reporter James Thurber was given a half a page in the Sunday Evening Dispatch of Columbus, Ohio, every week to fill with anything he wanted. For most of that year, he turned out book reviews, humorous commentary, jokes, stories, and even literary criticism.He also wrote a series of 13 short Sherlockian parodies - 10,000 words in all - starring Blue Ploermell, a "psychosocial" detective with a fondness for animal crackers. Aided (and occasionally impeded) by his Chinese manservant, Gong Low, Ploermell investigates cases marked by his cock-eyed deductions, loopy logic, and knack for leaping to the wrong conclusion.These juvenilia represents Thurber's first attempts at learning the craft of humor writing. Looking back at this work years later, he even considered publishing the Ploermell stores. The Cases of Blue Ploermell, for the first time in a century, collects the 13 stories. Edited and annotated by Bill Peschel, they show Thurber trying his hand at characterization, story structure, ethnic humor, and serial writing in a style rarely seen at any newspaper. In addition to the annotations, Peschel wrote essays on Thurber's years in Columbus, Ohio; journalism in the 1920s; the state of Sherlockian parodies; and depictions of Chinese men and women in American popular culture. Note: The 13 stories are very short, and take up 40 pages of this 200-page book. The rest of the book consists of these essays: "Becoming James Thurber" (39 pages); "Journalism in Thurber's Time" (4 pages); "Sherlockian Parodies in the 1920s" (8 pages); "The Ancestors of Gong Low" (13 pages); "The Chinese in Popular Culture" (35 pages); movie reviews (19 pages); chronology (9 pages); lists (7 pages).

In a Glass Darkly

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062302175
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book In a Glass Darkly written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published in the print anthology The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories. The narrator is startled by a vision in his mirror: He sees a man with a scarred neck strangling a beautiful blonde. He later meets the woman in his vision, Sylvia, and notes her fiancé's scarred neck. He tells her of his premonition, and the engagement is broken off. But is that all there is to it?

Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

Author : Pierre Bayard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781565846777
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (467 download)

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Download or read book Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? written by Pierre Bayard and published by . This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A French psychoanalyst and literary scholar offers a dramatic re-reading of Agatha Christie's classic novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, challenging Hercule Poirot's conclusions about the identity of the killer and presenting a startling new solution to the crime. Reprint.

The Act of Roger Murgatroyd

Author : Gilbert Adair
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571319807
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Act of Roger Murgatroyd written by Gilbert Adair and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boxing Day circa 1935. A snowed-in manor on the very edge of Dartmoor. A Christmas house-party. And overhead, in the attic, the dead body of Raymond Gentry, gossip columnist and blackmailer, shot through the heart. But the attic door is locked from the inside, its sole window is traversed by thick iron bars and, naturally, there is no sign of a murderer or a murder weapon. Fortunately (though, for the murderer, unfortunately), one of the guests is the formidable Evadne Mount, the bestselling author of countless classic whodunits. In fact, were she not its presiding sleuth, THE ACT OF ROGER MURGATROYD is exactly the type of whodunit she herself might have written.

The Thumb Mark of St Peter

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062211021
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Thumb Mark of St Peter written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic Agatha Christie short story, featuring Miss Marple, from the collection Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories. Fifteen years ago, Miss Marple’s niece, Mabel Denman, was accused of murdering her abusive and violent husband. Can Miss Marple clear her niece’s name and reveal the true perpetrator?

A Talent to Deceive

Author : Robert Barnard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780892969111
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book A Talent to Deceive written by Robert Barnard and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Talent to Deceive is an analysis of Agatha Christie's masterful solutions, of her strategems of deception, and of her unmatched ability to divert the reader's attention from the matter of real importance.

Agatha Christie: Inspiring Lives

Author : Cathy Cook
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752492535
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Agatha Christie: Inspiring Lives written by Cathy Cook and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This miscellany explores the fascinating and enigmatic world created by the undisputed 'Queen of Crime', Agatha Christie. Examining her place in literary history, her books and her iconic characters, including Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, this unique collection includes facts, trivia and quotes that feature in Christie's legendary stories and the subsequent film and television adaptations. The Agatha Christie Miscellany will also delve into the secrets, mysteries and tricks that made Christie the most sensational and successful mystery writer of her time. For example, how is it that she managed to keep us guessing the murderer until the very end? Looking at her life and the influences on her writing, this entertaining and informative miscellany will, above all, unravel the secrets of Agatha Christie's phenomenal success.

The Agatha Christie Who's who

Author : Randall Toye
Publisher : Scarborough, Ont. : Omniprose Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780921111542
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book The Agatha Christie Who's who written by Randall Toye and published by Scarborough, Ont. : Omniprose Limited. This book was released on 1980 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A is for Arsenic

Author : Kathryn Harkup
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472911318
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book A is for Arsenic written by Kathryn Harkup and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agatha Christie's detailed plotting is what makes her books so compelling. Christie used poison to kill her characters more often than any other murder method, with the poison itself being a central part of the novel, and her choice of deadly substances was far from random; the chemical and physiological characteristics of each poison provide vital clues to discovery of the murderer. With gunshots or stabbings the cause of death is obvious, but not so with poisons. How is it that some compounds prove so deadly, and in such tiny amounts?Christie demonstrated her extensive chemical knowledge (much of it gleaned from her working in a chemists during both world wars) in many of her novels, but this is rarely appreciated by the reader. A is for Arsenic celebrates the use of science in Christie's work. Written by Christie fan and research chemist Kathryn Harkup, each chapter takes a different novel and investigates the poison (or poisons) the murderer used. A is for Arsenic looks at why certain chemicals kill, how they interact with the body, and the feasibility of obtaining, administering and detecting these poisons, both at the time the novel was written and today. This book is published as part of the 125th anniversary celebration of Christie's birth.Fourteen novels. Fourteen poisons. Just because its fiction doesn't mean its all made-up ...

A Question of Proof

Author : Nicholas Blake
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099565358
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book A Question of Proof written by Nicholas Blake and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annual Sports Day at respected public school, Sudeley Hall, ends in tragedy when the headmaster's obnoxious nephew is found strangled in a haystack. The boy was despised by staff and students alike but English master Michael Evans soon becomes a prime suspect for the murder.

Agatha Christie's Miss Marple

Author : Anne Hart
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0006499562
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Agatha Christie's Miss Marple written by Anne Hart and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crimes tackled by Miss Marple include 16 murders, four attempted murders, and assorted robberies, embezzlements, blackmailings and poachings. This biography combs through the 12 novels and 20 short stories in which Miss Marple appeared in order to reveal her true identity.

Agatha Christie Goes to War

Author : Rebecca Mills
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000740846
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Agatha Christie Goes to War written by Rebecca Mills and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agatha Christie has never been substantially considered as a war writer, even though war is a constant presence in her writing. This interdisciplinary collection of essays considers the effects of these conflicts on the social and psychological textures of Christie’s detective fiction and other writings, demonstrating not only Christie’s textual navigation of her contemporary surroundings and politics, but also the value of her voice as a popular fiction writer reflecting popular concerns. Agatha Christie Goes to War introduces the ‘Queen of Crime’ as an essential voice in the discussion of war, warfare, and twentieth century literature.

Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making

Author : John Curran
Publisher : Harper
ISBN 13 : 9780062065421
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making written by John Curran and published by Harper. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As he did in the Edgar®-nominated and Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards–winning Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, Christie expert and archivist John Curran once again examines the unpublished notebooks of the world's bestselling author to explore the techniques she used to surprise and entertain generations of readers. Drawing on Christie's personal papers and letters, he reveals how more than twenty of her novels, as well as stage scripts, short stories, and some more personal items, evolved. Here are wonderful gems, including Christie's essay on her famous detective, Hercule Poirot, written for a British national newspaper in the 1930s; a previously unseen version of a "Miss Marple" short story; and a courtroom chapter from her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which was edited out of the published version in 1920; plus an insightful, well-reasoned analysis of her final unfinished novel, based on the author's notes and Curran's own deep knowledge of Christie and her work. A must-read for every Christie aficionado, Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making is a fascinating look into the mind and craft of one of the world's most prolific and beloved authors.