The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie

The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie

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  • Author: Dick Riley
  • Publisher: A&C Black
  • ISBN: 9780826413758
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 390

Over 400,000 copies sold! If you are a mystery buff, an Agatha Christie fan, an occasional Christie reader or an acquaintance of any of the above, this book is for you and all your fortunate friends The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie, on the 25th anniversary of Agatha Christie's death, continues as a grand salute to the queen of mysteries. It is filled with wonderful and surprising things about her books, her characters, the movies and plays based on them, and Dame Agatha herself. Original contributions by some sixty writers celebrate the Christie touch. Take your pick among thse intriguing features and speculations: -Surviving an English country weekend - if you had the advice of Hercule Poirot - A guide to the Christie poisions, as well as the cruder methods of genteel mayhem - The "other" Agatha Christie who wrote romantic novels - A murder victim's (!) first-person account of a Christie Mystery Weekend - The Hercule Poirot Double-Crostic and other puzzles That's a taste. There's much more - and witty plot summaries of all Christie's novels, plays, and many of her short stories. (But no endings, of course!) This treasury is more than entertainment - it is also a personal reference work for Christie fans. And there are scores of movie posters, film stills, illustrations and a Christie mystery map, too.


The New Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie

The New Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie

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The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Shakespeare

The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Shakespeare

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  • Author: Dick Riley
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • ISBN: 9780826412508
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

In the same winning formula as The New Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie (more than 300,000 copies sold) and The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Sherlock Holmes (1999), this all-new companion to Shakespeare will present The Bard in a new and exciting way in a new century. For students, scholars, theater lovers, and scholars - nearly everyone! - this book wraps some 400 years of Bardology into a lively and often unexpected package.In their witty and inimitable way, Dick Riley and Pam McAllister examine the whole dramatic canon, play by play, including dramas of disputed authorship. (The long poems and sonnets are also covered.) Included are inside stories on theater and film productions, "alternate" interpretations of the plays, Shakespeare's status around the world, the clubs and societies, the mysterious life - and even the question that has plagued critics almost from the day he put down his quill: whether Shakespeare even wrote the works attributed to him.


The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Sherlock Holmes

The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Sherlock Holmes

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  • Author: Dick Riley
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780826411167
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 238

Includes a summary of each Holmes story and novel, discusses the film adaptations, and offers trivia tidbits


Everyman's Guide to the Mysteries of Agatha Christie

Everyman's Guide to the Mysteries of Agatha Christie

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  • Author: Bruce Pendergast
  • Publisher: Trafford Publishing
  • ISBN: 1412023041
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 448

Everyman's Guide to the Mysteries of Agatha Christie is a reference book covering Christie's 238 stories. It provides data never before published about both important and trivial facts. Dedications, time periods, and locations have been laboriously researched, and provided with "time warp" explanations. Even trivial data such as newspapers (100 in all), pubs (95) and automobiles (136) are shown as well as each story in which they are listed. English sayings totalling 259 are shown with the book(s) in which they appear, including a brief explanation of their meaning. Yet Guide is much more than a list of facts. It is an informative reference book about Christie's writings. As well, different perspectives on many of the perplexing mysteries within her mysteries are provided. Finally, Guide is not an alphabetical list of stories or characters. Instead, it lists many entrancing "errors" of sketches and text with comments explaining where possible the reasons for their existence. Most importantly, "Guide" does not betray any book's endings nor the identity of the villain, a rule that genuine Christie devotees always try to uphold.


Agatha Christie: Inspiring Lives

Agatha Christie: Inspiring Lives

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  • Author: Cathy Cook
  • Publisher: The History Press
  • ISBN: 0752492535
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 186

This miscellany explores the fascinating and enigmatic world created by the undisputed 'Queen of Crime', Agatha Christie. Examining her place in literary history, her books and her iconic characters, including Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, this unique collection includes facts, trivia and quotes that feature in Christie's legendary stories and the subsequent film and television adaptations. The Agatha Christie Miscellany will also delve into the secrets, mysteries and tricks that made Christie the most sensational and successful mystery writer of her time. For example, how is it that she managed to keep us guessing the murderer until the very end? Looking at her life and the influences on her writing, this entertaining and informative miscellany will, above all, unravel the secrets of Agatha Christie's phenomenal success.


Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

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  • Author: Mark Campbell
  • Publisher: Oldcastle Books
  • ISBN: 1843444240
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 126

Marking the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth, this new edition offers an informed introductin to the chief proponent of the English village murder mystery. Although she created two enormously popular characters - the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and the inquisitive elderly spinster and amateur sleuth Miss Jane Marple of St Mary Mead - it is not generally acknowledged that Agatha Christie wrote in many different genres: comic mysteries (Why Didn't They Ask Evans?), atmospheric whodunits (Murder On The Orient Express), espionage thrillers (N or M?), romances (under the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott), plays (The Mousetrap) and poetry. This guide examines all of Christie's novels and short stories and lists the various TV and film adaptations of her works.


The Mystery Fancier

The Mystery Fancier

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  • Author: William F. Deeck
  • Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
  • ISBN: 0941028119
  • Category : Detective and mystery stories
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 186

A bibliography of various mystery novels published between November 1976 and Fall 1992.


The Christie Caper

The Christie Caper

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  • Author: Carolyn G. Hart
  • Publisher: Crimeline
  • ISBN: 0307574466
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 400

A group of Christie buffs. . .In honor of Agatha Christie's one hundredth birthday, mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance Darling plans a week-long celebration of mystery, treasure hunts, title clues, and Christie trivia. Yet even as the champagne is chilling and the happy guests begin arriving on Broward's Rock Island, Annie feels a niggling sense of doom. But the last thing she or her guests expect is that the scheduled fun and mayhem will include a real-life murder. The unexpected arrival of Neil Bledsoe, the most despised book critic in America, was sure to raise a few hackles. An advocate of hard-boiled detection and gory true crime, Bledsoe drops a bombshell on the devoted Christie assemblage: He's penning a scurrilous biography of the grand dame of suspense herself. Before the first title clue is solved, no less than two attempts are made on Bledsoe's life. Now Annie and her unflappable husband, Max Darling, find themselves trying to stop a murder in the making-only the first corpse isn't the one they're expecting. . .and it isn't the last.


The Complete Christie

The Complete Christie

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  • Author: Matthew Bunson
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 0671028316
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 472

Painstakingly researched, this illustrated reference captures the spirited imagination of Dame Agatha and the intriguing atmosphere of her tales. Includes a comprehensive Christie biography, cross-referenced with plot synopses and character listings. Photos throughout.