Understanding Agatha Christie

by Tison Pugh

Explores seven startling paradoxes behind the bestselling novelist's lasting popularity

Agatha Christie stands as the bestselling novelist of all time and, in terms of total sales in all genres, places only behind the Christian Bible and Shakespeare. Since the publication of The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1920, Christie's fiction has withstood the envy of her peers and the snipes of critics, while garnering the admiration...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643364405
• ISBN13: 9781643364407
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 156 Pages