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Interesting background about the Detection Club in England. Several short stories that were used on radio.
First published serially in The listener in 1930 (Behind the Screen) and 1931 (The Scoop)
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One of the most successful and beloved writer of mystery stories, Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie was born in 1890 in Torquay, County Devon, England. She wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920, launching a literary career that spanned decades. In her lifetime, she authored 79 crime novels and a short story collection, 19 show more plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language with another billion in 44 foreign languages. Some of her most famous titles include Murder on the Orient Express, Mystery of the Blue Train, And Then There Were None, 13 at Dinner and The Sittaford Mystery. Noted for clever and surprising twists of plot, many of Christie's mysteries feature two unconventional fictional detectives named Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. Poirot, in particular, plays the hero of many of her works, including the classic, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and Curtain (1975), one of her last works in which the famed detective dies. Over the years, her travels took her to the Middle East where she met noted English archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. They married in 1930. Christie accompanied Mallowan on annual expeditions to Iraq and Syria, which served as material for Murder in Mesopotamia (1930), Death on the Nile (1937), and Appointment with Death (1938). Christie's credits also include the plays, The Mousetrap and Witness for the Prosecution (1953; film 1957). Christie received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for 1954-1955 for Witness. She was also named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1971. Christie died in 1976. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Scoop | Behind the Screen
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- The Scoop & Behind the Screen
- Alternate titles
- The Scoop: Over the Wire (by Dorothy L. Sayers) (by Dorothy L. Sayers); The Scoop: At the Inquest (by Agatha Christie) (by Agatha Christie); The Scoop: Fisher's Alibi (by E.C. Bentley) (by E.C. Bentley); The Scoop: The Strange Behaviour of Mr Potts (AKA The Weapon) (by Agatha Christie) (AKA The Weapon | by Agatha Christie); The Scoop: Tracing Tracey (by Anthony Berkeley) (by Anthony Berkeley); The Scoop: Scotland Yard on the Job (by Freeman Wills Crofts) (by Freeman Wills Crofts) (show all 18); The Scoop: Beryl in Broad Street (by Clemence Dane) (by Clemence Dane); The Scoop: The Sad Truth About Potts (by E.C. Bentley) (by E.C. Bentley); The Scoop: Bond Street or Broad Street? (by Anthony Berkeley) (by Anthony Berkeley); The Scoop: Beryl Takes the Consequences (by Clemence Dane) (by Clemence Dane); The Scoop: Inspector Smart's Nasty Jar (by Freeman Wills Crofts) (by Freeman Wills Crofts); The Scoop: The Final Scoop (by Dorothy L. Sayers) (by Dorothy L. Sayers); Behind the Screen: I - The Guest in the House (by Hugh Walpole) (by Hugh Walpole); Behind the Screen: II - Something is Missing (by Agatha Christie) (by Agatha Christie); Behind the Screen: III - Man at the Gate (by Dorothy L. Sayers) (by Dorothy L. Sayers); Behind the Screen: IV - In the Aspidistra AKA I Killed Mr Dudden (by Anthony Berkeley) (by Anthony Berkeley); Behind the Screen: V - Amy Intervenes (by E.C. Bentley) (by E.C. Bentley); Behind the Screen: VI - Mr. Parsons on the Case AKA How Dudden Died (by Ronald Knox) (by Ronald Knox)
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- 1931
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