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Here you will find details about John, his new book and his forthcoming appearances. John Curran, lives in Dublin where he works for Dublin City Council. A lifelong Christie fan, for many years he edited the official Agatha Christie Newsletter. He acted as a consultant to the National Trust during the restoration of Greenway House, Dame Agatha’s Devon home. Concurrently with the writing of his first book, he is working with her grandson, Mathew Prichard, to establish an Agatha Christie Archive. He is a graduate of University College Dublin and is currently writing a doctoral thesis on Agatha Christie at Trinity College, Dublin
Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks
Full of details she was too modest to reveal in
her own Autobiography, and introduced by Agatha’s grandson Mathew Prichard, this
remarkable new book includes a wealth of extracts and pages reproduced directly from
her recently discovered notebooks, plus for the first time two newly discovered complete
Hercule Poirot short stories never before published.
Written with complete access to all Christie’s papers and the active encouragement of her family, the book will also reveal:
- Which very famous Poirot novel started life as an adventure for Miss Marple?
- How many characters would there have been in And Then There Were None before Agatha was persuaded to mirror the Victorian poem Ten Little Niggers?
- What were her unused ideas, and which concepts did she re-use between stories?
- What was Mousetrap II?
- What was the original ending of her first book The Mysterious Affair at Styles?
- 2 newly discovered, never-before-published Poirot short stories written during her most prolific and ingenious period
- Details of her last stage plays, unknown even to her most ardent fans
- Reproductions of pages from the Notebooks and photos from Christie’s personal collection
Available September 2009.
Meet John at CRIMEFEST
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