Agatha Christie
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- Critical Survey of Mystery & Detective Fiction, Revised Edition
- Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition
- Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition
- Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century
- Magill's Survey of World Literature, Revised Edition
- Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition
See Also
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
- The Mousetrap (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- The Detective Novel (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
- Theory of Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- The Detective Story (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- The Mousetrap (Masterplots II: Women's Literature Series)
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Masterplots II: Women's Literature Series)
- The Mousetrap (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- The Mousetrap (Masterplots II: Drama)
- Origins and Development of the Novel, 1890-1980 (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
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- Author: Agatha Christie
- Characters: Hercule Poirot, Captain Arthur Hastings, Lieutenant Thomas Beresford, Prudence Cowley Beresford, Superintendent Battle, Jane Marple, Ariadne Oliver
Contribution
Through some seventy mystery novels and thrillers as well as 149 short stories and more than a dozen plays, Agatha Christie helped create the form of classic detective fiction, in which a murder is committed and many are suspected. In the end, all but one of the suspects are eliminated, and the criminal dies or is arrested. Working within these conventions, Christie explored their limits through numerous variations to create her intellectual puzzles. Much of the charm of her work derives from its use of the novel-of-manners tradition, as she explores...
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