Paperback. Pub Date:2012-08-30 Pages: 496 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Agatha Christie's life and career told through the decades. from the never-before-published original ending to her first book to the unused ideas for her last. complete with two unpublished Agatha Christie stories - including a lost Miss Marple.In this follow-up volume to the acclaimed Agatha Christies Secret Notebooks. Christie archivist and expert John Curran leads the reader through the six decades of Agatha Christies writing career. unearthing some remarkable clues to her success and a number of never-before-published excerpts and stories from her archives.Starting his investigation in the 1920s. John Curran examines the conventions of detective novels as they existed then and how Agatha Christies publisher talked her into changing the ending of her very first book. The M...