Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime
- ISBN-10
- 1432893491
- ISBN-13
- 9781432893491
- Series
- Agatha Christie
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 318
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press Large Print
- Author
- H. R. F. Keating
Description
"Agatha Christie was not only the most successful author of detective stories the world has ever known, she was also a mystery in herself, giving only the rarest interviews--declining absolutely to become any sort of public figure--and a mystery, too, in the manner in which she achieved her astonishing success ... H.R.F. Keating brings together a dozen noted writers from both sides of the Atlantic to throw light on the ever-intriguing Dame Agatha"--
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