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Agatha Christie: The Queen of Mystery On a chilly night in December 1926, renowned British mystery author Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared from her home in Berkshire after leaving her car abandoned miles away. The public launched a massive manhunt assuming foul play befell the successful writer. However, eleven days later, Agatha resurfaced claiming memory loss from trauma having secretly traveled to a spa under an alias. While the notorious incident never fully got solved, one flawless truth remained undisputed - Christie herself was the indisputable "Queen of Mystery" spinning ...

In December 1926, celebrated author Agatha Christie vanished for eleven days, creating a real-life mystery that would captivate the world. This series dives deep into the events surrounding her disappearance, exploring the emotional turmoil, public fascination, and enduring legacy of this enigmatic episode in her life. Through meticulous research and vivid storytelling, The Missing Days brings to life a tale of betrayal, resilience, and reinvention—one that rivals the intrigue of her greatest novels. This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

Agatha Christie is one of our most beloved authors—a storyteller unparalleled in her clever plots and twisting tales. But Agatha was also a forensic expert; in each of her books she employs an expert weaving of human observation, ingenuity and genuine science of the era. In Murder Isn't Easy Carla Valentine illuminates all of Agatha's incredible knowledge, showing how she stayed at the cutting edge of forensics from ballistics to fingerprint analysis, as seen through much-loved characters such as Poirot and Miss Marple.

Agatha Christie revelled in the use of poison to kill off unfortunate victims in her books; indeed, she employed it more than any other murder method, with the poison itself often being a central part of the novel. Her choice of deadly substances was far from random—the characteristics of each often provide vital clues to the discovery of the murderer. Christie's extensive chemical knowledge provides the backdrop for A Is for Arsenic, in which Kathryn Harkup investigates the poisons used by the murderer in fourteen classic Agatha Christie mysteries.

This is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the strange, enduring magic of books as objects. Ever since childhood, books have been at the centre of Ian Patterson's life, as a poet, teacher, translator, bookseller and collector. As he constructs the last of many...

New York Times bestselling author Jonah Lehrer “unravels the mystery of mysteries” in this “absolute delight” (Malcolm Gladwell) of a book that blends psychology, neuroscience, and anthropology to shine a new light on everything from the formulas of our favorite detective shows to the...

'Indecently entertaining' A Daily Mail Book of the Week As any reader of murder mysteries can tell you, poison is one of the most enduring — and popular — weapons of choice for a scheming murderer. It can be slipped into a drink, smeared onto the tip of an arrow or the handle of a door, even...