Agatha Christie's Complete Secret Notebooks brings together for the
first time Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making, two volumes
that explore the fascinating contents of her 73 notebooks. This
includes illustrations, deleted extracts, unused ideas, two
unpublished Poirot stories and a lost Miss Marple. When Agatha
Christie died in 1976, aged 85, she had become the world's most
popular author. With sales of more than two billion copies
worldwide in more than 100 countries, she had achieved the
impossible - more than one book every year since the 1920s, every
one a bestseller. So prolific was Agatha Christie's output - 66
crime novels, 20 plays, 6 romance books under a pseudonym and over
150 short stories - it was often claimed that she had a
photographic memory. Was this true? Or did she resort over those 55
years to more mundane methods of working out her ingenious crimes?
Following the death of Agatha's daughter, Rosalind, at the end of
2004, a remarkable secret was revealed. Unearthed among her affairs
at the family home of Greenway were Agatha Christie's private
notebooks, 73 handwritten volumes of notes, lists and drafts
outlining all her plans for her many books, plays and stories.
Buried in this treasure trove, all in her unmistakable handwriting,
are revelations and details that will fascinate anyone who has ever
read or watched an Agatha Christie story. Christie archivist and
expert John Curran leads the reader through the six decades of
Agatha Christie's writing career, unearthing some remarkable clues
to her success and a number of never-before-published excerpts and
stories from her archives. This book features Agatha's original
ending of her very first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles,
painstakingly transcribed from her notebooks. It also includes a
number of short stories from the archives reproduced in full,
including the unpublished The Man Who Knew, How I Created Hercule
Poirot, and an early draft for a Miss Marple story, The Case of the
Caretaker's Wife.
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