Titlebook: Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion; R. A. York Book 2007 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007 Agatha Chris

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The Spectacle of Death,ge - and if they seem to be, there is something more to find out about them, something that makes them remarkable. They are not even the murders we are all too familiar with from our newspapers (and from a different sort of crime novel), deaths of simple violence or perverse pleasure, the results of

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The Wrong Angle,there may simply be no immediate information as to who he or she is, requiring the police to search for clues and witnesses to lead them to a yet unknown person. In the detective story, there is plenty of information, but it needs to be interpreted; the detective has to sort out the relevant from th

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Actors and Imposters,people they purport to be (as they no doubt know). It is difficult to imagine any situation in real life where this comment would need to be made; it is essential in Agatha Christie, where almost anyone might prove to be somebody else. Even here Poirot’s comment is somewhat inaccurate: Miss Shapland

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The Self and the Other,ique individuals. The comment is rather too general: this study aims to show that many of her characters are quite precisely conceived. But it is obviously not unfounded, as far as quite a lot of other characters are concerned, and even the more original conceptions are often close to standard model

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Clues,rienced reader of detective stories recognizes this as almost certainly a proof of his innocence, but Hercule Poirot, Superintendent Spence and the jury at the inquest are bound to take it seriously. Lost property, footprints, the 140 varieties of tobacco ash that Sherlock Holmes has catalogued — th

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The Myth of Crime,k that the hard-boiled novel of Hammett and Chandler has a greater claim to genuine social observation than the classic detective tale, which may appear to be a frivolous game, without much more claim to represent the real than has Cluedo or Monopoly. We shouldn’t accept the view too readily. Hammet

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