The Gentle Art of Murder: The Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie

by Earl F. Bargainnier

Book Overview

This study of the technique of Agatha Christie's detective fiction--sixty-seven novels and over one hundred short stories--is the first extensive analysis of her accomplishment as a writer. Earl F. Bargannier demonstrates that Christie thoroughly understood the conventions of her genre and, with seemingly inexhaustible ingenuity, was able to develop for more than fifty years surprising variations within those conventions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879721588
• ISBN13: 9780879721589
• Release Date: June 1980
• Publisher: Popular Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"