![]() Her books are astute to the point of cynical about human nature, but, like many writers, she was wiser on the page than in life. ![]() Despite the ordered appearance that her writing presents, in her private self she was emotional, occasionally chaotic, and imaginative in a way that stretched far beyond the discipline of the crime genre. ![]() Nor – perhaps more surprisingly – would she necessarily have been very good at solving a murder. Her accidental detective, Miss Marple, could scarcely leave her house without meeting a killer but Agatha herself had no such experience. Her biographer Laura Thompson separates fact from fictionĭid Agatha Christie, queen of fictional crime, ever have a close encounter with real-life murder? As her biographer, I can say with some confidence that she did not. A new drama tells the story of how the Queen of Crime met archaeologist Max Mallowan - and solved a real-life murder case.
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