As regular listeners to my audio casts will know, I am addicted to detective thrillers and particularly to those in the so-called golden age roughly between the first and second world wars.
Among the galaxy of star writers, one blazed more brightly than the others. Agatha Christie‘s personal life has become as much a mystery in several ways as those fictional mysteries which brought her fame and fortune.
I have acquired two of her works that were unknown to me but reissued recently. Perhaps they are clues in them I have not detected. But on the first reading, one had all the brilliance that makes Christie‘s work original and brilliant. The other might have been written as an attempt to imitate Agatha Christie by a far less gifted author.
And that’s the mystery I found myself thinking about…
