Gill Plain

Agatha Christie

A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

Agatha Christie is the author of over 80 books and the world's longest running play. This Very Short Introduction will explore this extraordinary success by considering the curious alchemy of her straightforward style and her convoluted plotting, and it will examine the construction of her most popular serial characters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 174mm x 111mm
• ISBN-13: 9780198863748
• ISBN-10: 0198863748
• Artikelnr.: 72107200

Autorenporträt

Gill Plain is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews. Alongside a lifelong preoccupation with crime fiction, she has research interests in British literature, cinema, and culture of the mid-twentieth century, war writing, feminist theory and gender studies. She is the author of Women's Fiction of the Second World War (1996); Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender, Sexuality and the Body (2001); and Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and 'Peace' (2013).