Agatha Christie's Golden Age

GODDARD, John

Stylish Eye Press

This book provides the first comprehensive definition of the puzzle elements in Agatha Christie’s novels, proposing the idea that murder stories can be deconstructed into three puzzle elements – Solution, Plot and Clues. It then analyses how well those puzzle elements work in the 21 novels of her principal detective, Hercule Poirot, published during what can fairly be regarded as the Golden Age of detective fiction (1918 – 1945). The analysis therefore covers Poirot’s most famous novels such as The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, The ABC Murders and Death on the Nile. As Dr John Curran, the leading Agatha Christie expert, says in his Introduction, the book provides an accessible way for readers – not just Christie scholars but her general readership – to understand how the novels work as puzzles. And, as Scott Baker, the leading Christie memorabilia collector, says in his review on the Amazon Australia site, the book shows us just how incredible the novels are and is a must for the Christie scholar and fan alike. The book also gives readers the chance to re-live, at a readable length, the intrigue or cosiness of a favourite novel from a new perspective, reminding them how much they enjoyed, or were intrigued by, a particular solution, plot or clue and perhaps enabling them to appreciate points which they had not previously spotted. The book is unofficial in the sense that it has not been sponsored by Agatha Christie’s estate but is the culmination of an extensive independent critical study of her work by the author. He brings to this challenge not only the enthusiasm and warmth of a lifelong Christie fan but also the forensic skills of a former lawyer who was for many years a partner in a major City firm in London. For more details about the book and the author, visit www.stylisheyepress.com.

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Agatha Christie's Golden Age - Volume II: Miss Marple and the other Golden Age puzzles

John Goddard

Volume II of Agatha Christie’s Golden Age is the companion work to Volume I, which provided the first comprehensive definition of the puzzle elements in Agatha Christie’s novels, proposing the idea that murder stories could be deconstructed into three puzzle elements – Solution, Plot and Clues. 
Volume I then analysed how well those puzzle elements worked in the 21 novels of her principal detective, Hercule Poirot, published during what can fairly be regarded as the Golden Age of detective fiction (1918 – 1945). Volume II adopts the same technique with the 13 non-Poirot novels which Christie published during the Golden Age, including three Miss Marple novels, two Tommy and Tuppence thrillers and her most famous and popular novel, And Then There Were None. 
As Dr John Curran, the leading Agatha Christie expert, says in his Introduction, Volume II again provides an accessible way for readers – not just Christie scholars but her general readership – to understand how the novels work as puzzles. It also gives readers the chance to re-live, at a readable length, the intrigue or cosiness of a favourite novel from a new perspective, reminding them how much they enjoyed, or were intrigued by, a particular solution, plot or clue and perhaps enabling them to appreciate points which they had not previously spotted. 
Like Volume I, Volume II is unofficial in the sense that it has not been sponsored by Agatha Christie’s estate but is the culmination of an extensive independent critical study of her work by the author. He brings to this challenge not only the enthusiasm and warmth of a lifelong Christie fan but also the forensic skills of a former lawyer who was for many years a partner in a major City firm in London.

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Agatha Christie's Golden Age

Agatha Christie's Golden Age

Agatha Christie's Golden Age - Volume II: Miss Marple and the other Golden Age puzzles

Agatha Christie's Golden Age - Volume II: Miss Marple and the other Golden Age puzzles