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

Earl F Bargainnier
University of Wisconsin Press
 9780879721596
0-87972-159-6

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.

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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.