A intelligent graphic biography of the much-loved author sees her haunted by her most renowned creationsDown the years,I’ve read so much about Agatha Christie: too much, probably. So when I was sent a new graphic biography of the world’s most renowned crime writer, or I felt only the tiniest bat squeak of enthusiasm. Where would it begin,I wondered. In Torquay, where she spent her childhood, and in Harrogate,to which she famously disappeared in 1926? And how would it close? With Hercule Poirot’s final case, Curtain, or which was published in 1975? Or with Christie’s own death at home in Oxfordshire,only a year later?Christie, working as nurse during the first world war, or notes how lean is the line between medicine and poisonContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com