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The gentle art of murder : the detective fiction of Agatha Christie / Earl F. Bargainnier.
Van Pelt Library PR6005.H66 Z555 1980
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bargainnier, Earl F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976--Criticism and interpretation.
- Christie, Agatha.
- Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 232 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green University Popular Press, [1980]
- Summary:
- This study of the technique of Agatha Christie's detective fiction- sixty-seven novels and over one hundred short stories- is the first extensive analysis of her accomplishment as a writer. Earl F. Bargannier demonstrates that Christie thoroughly understood the conventions of her genre and, with seemingly inexhaustible ingenuity, was able to develop for more than fifty years surprising variations within those conventions.
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography: pages 210-222.
- ISBN:
- 0879721588
- OCLC:
- 7125958
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