Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
Record details
- ISBN: 9781639365739
- ISBN: 1639365737
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Physical Description:
xvi, 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 21 cm
print - Edition: First Pegasus Books paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Pegasus Crime, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-397) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface : Hiding in plain sight -- Part one : Victorian girl, 1890s. The house where I was born -- Insanity in the family -- The thing in the house -- Ruined -- Part two : Edwardian debutante, 1900s. Waiting for the man -- Best Victorian lavatory -- The Gezireh Palace Hotel -- Enter Archibald -- Part three : Wartime nurse, 1914-18. Torquay Town Hall -- Love and death -- Enter Poirot -- The Moorland Hotel -- Part four : Bright young author, 1920s. Enter London -- Enter Rosalind -- The British Mission -- Thrillers -- Part five : 1926. Sunningdale -- The Mysterious Affair at Styles -- Disappearance -- The Harrogate Hydropathic Hotel -- Reappearance -- Part six : Plutocratic period, 1930s. Mesopotamia -- Enter Max -- I think I will marry you -- Eight houses -- The golden age -- Part seven : Wartime worker, 1940s. Beneath the bombs -- A daughter's a daughter -- Life is rather complicated -- By Mary Westmacott -- Part eight : Taken at the flood, 1950s. A big expensive dream -- They came to Baghdad -- Christie-land after the war -- Second row in the stalls -- A charming grandmother -- Part nine : Not swinging, 1960s. The mystery of the Christie fortune -- A queer lot -- Lady detectives -- To know when to go -- Part ten : Curtain, 1970s. Winterbrook -- After the funeral. |
Biographical or Historical Data: | Lucy Worsley OBE is Chief Curator at the charity Historic Royal Palaces. She also presents history documentaries for the BBC. Her bestselling books include Queen Victoria; Jane Austen at Home; The Art of the English Murder; and If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home. In 2019, her BBC One program Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley won a BAFTA. She lives in England. |
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Genre: | Biographies. History. |
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