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Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 415-426
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Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
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Author keywords
Agatha Christie (1890 1976); Agatha Christie, praised as an ingenious puzzle plotter Agatha Christie having the intellect and technical skill to make of the clue puzzle; Biased nature of Raymond Chandler's analysis of the golden age safe and cozy has become increasingly evident; Christie's thrillers less rigorous novels to write; Christie's use of the generic format not formulaic either, but similarly parodic and playful; Comparing The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) to Endless Night (1967) or Hallowe'en Party (1969) encompassing variation in types of detective novel and in worlds of detection; In The Mysterious Affair at Styles Christie, giving a diagram of the murdered woman's room; Miss Marple, character of Miss Jane Marple featured in fewer books than Poirot; The golden age "whodunit " presenting all the clues needed to solve the murder; Unsettling frisson of anxiety surrounding Christie's crime fiction deadly potential embedded in mundane domestic situation
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EID: 84867343832
PISSN: None
EISSN: None
Source Type: Book
DOI: 10.1002/9781444317916.ch33 Document Type: Chapter |
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