![]() ![]() On December 16, my 21 st birthday, my Aunt Rosalie gave me my last “Christie for Christmas.” The last Marple, Sleeping Murder, came out in October. Poirot’s Curtain call had been published the previous September. Why not a swan song for Tommy and Tuppence, too? Her notebooks also provide ample evidence that, for the longest time, the author was undecided over who would do the detecting here, Miss Marple, Poirot or even the Beresfords!ġ976: Agatha Christie died in January. Indeed, one has to ask why Christie would pen a “final” case for a sleuth who, by 1940, had appeared in exactly one novel and a collection of stories and who hadn’t been heard from in a decade. On the other hand, in Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks, John Curran makes a powerful case for the book having been written much later, possibly as late as the early 1950’s. In addition to N or M?, (more of a powerhouse thriller in its day due to its controversial anti-Nazi statement) and the delightful Evil Under the Sun, Christie wrote two books as insurance against her untimely demise – final cases for both Poirot and Miss Marple – bequeathed the sales of one to her husband and the other to her daughter, and put them both in a vault for safekeeping. His review came out yesterday.ġ940: According to biographer Laura Thompson, Christie began a staggering period of production, probably egged on by the bombs of war flying all around her. Mazel tov, JJ! Because he tackled the books in order of publication, his last read was Sleeping Murder. 2020: My pal JJ finishes his first run of reading Agatha Christie. ![]()
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This boy is growing up in an isolated corrugated iron shed next to a wildlife sanctuary. Storm Boy tells the story of a 10-year-old boy, called Mick by his father Tom, and Storm Boy by the Aboriginal loner Fingerbone he befriends. ![]() |