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The author of the Somerset Maugham award-winning The Dogs: A Personal History of Greyhound Racing, and the brilliant biography Life In A Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford, Laura Thompson turns her highly acclaimed biographical skills to arguably the greatest crime writer in the world, Agatha Christie.
'Laura Thompson's outstanding biography .…
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For all of Christie’s clever plotting, her own life is the biggest mystery.
I started reading her around the age of ten and now that I write mysteries myself, I reread her books just to see how she structures plot, plants clues, and misleads the reader. But I have always been fascinated by her life as well.
Laura Thompson’s books weaves together Christie’s life with her fiction for a rich explanation of not only why Christie became a writer, but how her experiences informed her themes, why she created romances under the name Mary Westmacott, and of course tries to…
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