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Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks - Part 3 by John_Curran

Those who have been following my account of Agatha Christie’s Notebooks have been asking me what I think is the most interesting element of this treasure trove, and what will I be revealing in my new book?

Amongst the most fascinating entries in the Notebooks are, without doubt, those that contain what I have called the ‘Unused Ideas’. These can be as little as a sentence (Stored blood idea, wrong blood or something added to it [35]) or as much as a dozen pages. There are different murderers from those we know sketched in for many novels, and many ...

What are the true circumstances of the death of Claudia Hardcastle by Chris_Chan

SPOILER WARNING!  THIS ESSAY CONTAINS SPOILERS TO THE SOLUTION OF ENDLESS NIGHT.  DO NOT READ THIS ESSAY IF YOU HAVE NOT READ ENDLESS NIGHT!!!

Endless Night is widely considered to be one of the best novels from the later years of Christie’s career.  Christie and her husband, Max Mallowan, both ranked Endless Night as one of their favorite books, and many critics share this sentiment.  There are many reasons to support this assessment.  Both plotwise and thematically, Endless Night is very different from most of Christie’s other mysteries, and it also contains well-developed central characters and particularly intriguing ...

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