DUCHESS OF DEATH The Biography of Agatha Christie

Richard Hack Agatha Christie

ISBN 10: 1597776203 / ISBN 13: 9781597776202

Published by Phoenix Books, Beverly Hills, CA, 2009

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Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; 9.0 X 6.1 X 1.1 inches; 284 pages.

Seller Inventory # 134263

Bibliographic Details

• Title: DUCHESS OF DEATH The Biography of Agatha Christie
• Publisher: Phoenix Books, Beverly Hills, CA
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1597776203
• ISBN 13: 9781597776202
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery and Thrillers
  • Discounted
  • misc sale

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Synopsis

Although she is the most popular novelist in history, with over two billion books sold worldwide, Agatha Christie lived a life shrouded in secrecy and fueled by curiosity. Nearly as notorious for her aversion to the press as she was for her 80 books and collections of short stories, Christie made no secret of her need for privacy. Utilizing over 5,000 previously unpublished letters, notes, and documents, award-winning biographer Richard Hack allows Christie to write again, 33 years after her death. DUCHESS OF DEATH is her story, as full of romance, travel, wealth, and scandal as any mystery Christie ever crafted. There have been numerous biographies of the Queen of Crime, all of which claim to be definitive. However, DUCHESS OF DEATH is the first to draw from such an enormous number of previously unpublished correspondence and notes, effectively establishing it as the most authoritative, penetrating look at the personal and literary life of Christie.