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      JANET MORGAN

       Agatha Christie

      A Biography

      

      HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

      Previously published in paperback by Fontana 1985

      First published by William Collins Sons and Co.Ltd 1984

      Copyright © Janet Morgan 1984

      Janet Morgan asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780008243951

      Ebook Edition © AUGUST 2017 ISBN: 9780007392995

      Version: 2017-07-28

       Dedication

       For Shiela

       Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       9 ‘The next I write will be the 5th’

       10 ‘I do not think she knows who she is’

       11 ‘A ghastly ten days’

       12 ‘An unquestionably genuine loss of memory’

       13 ‘London – Paris – Lausanne – Milan – Venice’

       14 ‘An idea I’ve never ever considered’

       15 ‘Corpses and stiffs’

       16 ‘A nice parallel track’

       17 ‘Things all seem to come at once’

       18 ‘Only an interruption’

       19 ‘A certain amount of fêting’

       20 ‘Digging up the dead’

       21 ‘All the panoply and misdirection of the conjuror’s art’

       22 ‘I shall go on enjoying myself’

       23 ‘An onlooker and an observer’

       24 ‘Like a cinema film run backwards’

       25 ‘An ordinary successful hard-working author’

       26 ‘It will not, I think, be long’

       Index

       About the Author

       About the Publisher

       Foreword

      It was not a predictable match.

      In 1981 Agatha Christie’s daughter Rosalind, Mrs Anthony Hicks, was at last persuaded to allow Collins, publisher of her mother’s books, to commission a biography, its author to have unrestricted access to family archives. For years, Mrs Hicks had resisted this; like her mother, she believed that a writer’s work

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