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Agatha Christie
1890 to 1976 · English · Detective fiction
What sets their writing apart: Study Christie for fair-play plotting: clues placed in plain sight, misdirection and the engineered reveal. A model for structure, planting and payoff.
Notable works
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
- Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
- And Then There Were None (1939)
- The Mousetrap (1952)
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