![]() ![]() I’m a keen reader of crime fiction – and have been since I first discovered the genius of Agatha Christie as a teenager (many moons ago…) ![]() The book includes interviews with dozens of contemporary authors such as Ann Cleeves, Sophie Hannah, Tess Gerritsen and Kathy Reichs and features the work of hundreds of women crime and mystery writers. Women’s novels which featured the marginalised in society as centralised characters.Ĭline also explores why women readers are drawn to the genre and seek out justice in crime fiction, in a world where violent crimes against women rarely have such resolution. Paretsky and Sue Grafton, who created the first female PIs, and the more recentĮmergence of forensic crime writing and domestic noir thrillers such as ‘Gone Girl’ and ‘Apple Tree Yard’.Īfter Agatha examines the diversification of crime writing and highlights landmark Spanning the 1930s to present day, ‘After Agatha’ charts the explosion in women’s crime writing and examines key developments on both sides of the Atlantic: from the women writers at the helm of the UK Golden Age and their American and CanadianĬounterparts fighting to be heard, to the 1980s experimental trio, Marcia Muller, Sara Thanks to Oldcastle Books for inviting me on the tour and for my copy of the book in exchange for an honest review. Most of her books and short stories have been adapted for television, radio, video games and comics, and more than thirty feature films have been based on her work.I’m delighted to welcome you to my stop on the blog tour for ‘After Agatha: Women Write Crime’ by Sally Cline. On 15 September 2015, coinciding with Christie's 125th birthday, And Then There Were None was voted as the "World's Favourite Christie", followed closely by Murder on the Orient Express and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. In 2013, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was voted the best crime novel ever by 600 fellow writers of the Crime Writers' Association. ![]() Later the same year, Witness for the Prosecution received an Edgar Award by the MWA for Best Play. In 1955 Christie was the first recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's highest honour, the Grand Master Award. Christie's stage play The Mousetrap holds the record for the longest initial run: it opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End on 25 November 1952 and as of 2016 is still running after more than 25,000 performances. And Then There Were None is Christie's best-selling novel, with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery ever, and one of the best-selling books of all time. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author – having been translated into at least 103 languages. Her novels have sold roughly 2 billion copies, and her estate claims that her works come third in the rankings of the world's most-widely published books, behind only Shakespeare's works and the Bible. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. She was initially an unsuccessful writer, but The Mysterious Affair at Styles was published in 1920 featuring Hercule Poirot. She served in a hospital during the First World War before marrying and starting a family in London. Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon. ![]() In 1971 she was made a Dame for her contribution to literature. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, The Mousetrap, and six romances under the name Mary Westmacott. She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright. ![]()
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