Copyright © All rights reserved. Created by David H Headley
JOHN CURRAN
Welcome
Here you will find details about John, his new book and his forthcoming appearances. John Curran, lives in Dublin, and is 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 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:
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 among 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
|
