Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie

Dedication

Foreword - Val McDermid

PART ONE: AGATHA CHRISTIE, THE WOMAN AND THE WRITER

Introduction, and a Chronology - Mary Anna Evans and J.C. Bernthal

My Grandmother, Agatha Christie - Mathew Prichard

PART TWO: CRITICAL APPROACHES

"The Creative Impulse" and the Middlebrow Woman Detective Author - Rebecca Mills

Christie's Clues as Information - Michelle M. Kazmer

Reading Agatha Christie Through A Feminist Lens - Mary Anna Evans

Queer Clues to Christie - J.C. Bernthal

Anthropocene and Archetype: Christie Does Ecocriticism - Susan Rowland

The Fabulous Flapper: Psychogeography and the Female Detective - Sarah Martin

Beit Agatha: Reading the Contemporary Middle East in Agatha Christie's Novels - Nadia Atia

PART THREE - CHRISTIE AND SOCIETY
Christie and the Carnage of War - J.C. Bernthal

Of Race, Law, and Order: Colonial Ghosts in Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None - Meta G. Carstarphen

Agatha Christie and the State - Mary Evans

House and Home: The Country House - Brittain Bright

Agatha Christie, The Law, and Justice - Mary Anna Evans

Christie and Christianity - J.C. Bernthal

Weapon of Choice: Poison, Christie, and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction - Kathryn Harkup

PART FOUR -- BEYOND THE CRIME NOVELS

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Mary Westmacott Novels - Merja Makinen

Christie's Radio Broadcasts for the BBC - Vike Martina Plock

"A Glorious Gamble": Agatha Christie and the Theater - Benedict Morrison

Film and Television Adaptations of Agatha Christie - Mark Aldridge

Legacies - Barbara Peters, with Martin Edwards, Rhys Bowen, Ragnar Jonasson, and L. Alison Heller

List of Plates

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

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• Estudos literários: desde ~ 1900
• Literatura: história e crítica

Murder on the Orient Express; British women's writing; And Then There Were None; Death on the Nile; crime writing; crime novels; cards on the table; crooked house; Hercule Poirot; short stories; popular modernism; crime and the state; detective fiction