Showing posts with label AUTHOR Agatha Christie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AUTHOR Agatha Christie. Show all posts
27 September 2020

More on Christie and Wodehouse

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After posting about the possible influence of P. G. Wodehouse on Agatha Christie, I got a hold of Christie’s autobiography to see if it h...
07 September 2020

Did Wodehouse Influence Christie?

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles made me wonder if Agatha Christie’s portrayal of the relationship between Capt. Arthur Hastings and Hercu...
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01 September 2020

Captain Hastings’s True Worth

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In the end, after the drawing-room revelations that the publisher demanded, I enjoyed Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles m...
26 August 2020

Christie Exercises the Little Grey Cells

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Reading Agatha Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles , for the first time, I was struck by how she used dialogue to give...
14 November 2013

The Wonderful Wizard of You

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A tweet alerted me to this service , which offers to create an edition of L. Frank Baum’s Wonderful Wizard of Oz customized for yourself or...
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17 July 2013

Rowling as a Mystery Writer All Along

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Last week’s revelation that J. K. Rowling has published a pseudonymous murder mystery sent folks back to the archives for clues they wished...
16 December 2009

Writing Advice with Health Implications

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Any guide to good writing says that specific phrasing is stronger than vague generalities. Rich vocabularies can express more than narrow le...
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29 July 2009

In New Book, Frog and Toad Aren’t Friends

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I’m always suspicious about breathless announcements of newly discovered manuscripts by popular authors long after their deaths. Those autho...