Table of Contents
Acknowledgments deleteviii
Preface
Organization of the Companion
Agatha Christie: A Brief Biography
A Career Chronology
Christie’s Works in Alphabetical Order
Christie’s Works in Order of First Publication/Performance
List of Abbreviations
The Companion
Annotated Bibliography
Index
J.C. Bernthal is a visiting fellow at the University of Suffolk, UK. He has authored or edited several volumes on Agatha Christie and in 2020, won the Popular Culture Association’s George N. Dove Award for advancing crime fiction scholarship. Series Editor Elizabeth Foxwell, an Agatha Award winner, serves as managing editor of Clues: A Journal of Detection and is an editor at McFarland.
“Writing and compiling an encyclopedic companion about the ‘Queen
of Crime’ is no small feat. Bernthal with series editor Foxwell
have researched and compiled an impressive companion to Agatha
Christie’s oeuvre. ... Avid mystery readers will likely enjoy
perusing this work, and researchers will appreciate how thorough it
is. The author and editor have accomplished something unique: a
reference work that is approachable and accessible for library
workers, scholars, and general readers. ... This volume is
well-researched, not to mention thorough and well-presented. Given
the breadth of Christie’s life and work, it would be a worthwhile
addition to an academic or public library collection.”—Library
Journal
“A thorough, wide-ranging guide to this popular writer—who was
‘outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare’ (p. 1)—and her full
oeuvre along with her life and career influences. The style is
approachable, and contentious issues such as anti-Semitism are
addressed. A helpful annotated bibliography and an index conclude
this impressively detailed compendium. It will be useful for fans
of mysteries and Christie trivia as well as academic
researchers....highly recommended”—Choice
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