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A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie by Robert Barnard

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funny informative reflective medium-paced

stephang18's review

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3.0

The author tries to explain why Agatha Christie is still so popular and widely read while most of her contemporaries are no longer in print. His answer is that Christie uses stock cardboard characters that allow the readers to substitute their local versions of the people.
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