The Gentle Art of Murder: The Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie

The Gentle Art of Murder: The Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie
ISBN-10
0879721596
ISBN-13
9780879721596
Category
Detective and mystery stories, English
Pages
232
Language
English
Published
1980
Publisher
Popular Press
Author
Earl F. Bargainnier

Description

This study of the technique of Agatha Christie’s detective fiction—sixty-seven novels and over one hundred short stories—is the first extensive analysis of her accomplishment as a writer. Earl F. Bargannier demonstrates that Christie thoroughly understood the conventions of her genre and, with seemingly inexhaustible ingenuity, was able to develop for more than fifty years surprising variations within those conventions.

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