02881cam a2200421 4500 605255016 TxAuBib 20220913120000.0 220901s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781639362523 $29.95 1639362525 $29.95 TxAuBib Worsley, Lucy. Agatha Christie : An Elusive Woman / Lucy Worsley. First Pegasus Books cloth edition. New York : Pegasus Crime, 2022. xvi, 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-363) and index. Preface: Hiding in plain sight -- Part one: Victorian girl, 1890s. The house where I was born ; Insanity in the family ; The thing in the house ; Ruined -- Part two: Edwardian debutante, 1900s. Waiting for the man ; Best Victorian lavatory ; The Gezireh Palace Hotel ; Enter Archibald -- Part three: Wartime nurse, 1914-18. Torquay Town Hall ; Love and death ; Enter Poirot ; The Moorland Hotel -- Part four: Bright young author, 1920s. Enter London ; Enter Rosalind ; The British Mission ; Thrillers -- Part five: 1926. Sunningdale ; The Mysterious Affair at Styles ; Disappearance ; The Harrogate Hydropathic Hotel ; Reappearance -- Part six: Plutocratic period, 1930s. Mesopotamia ; Enter Max ; I think I will marry you ; Eight houses ; The golden age -- Part seven: Wartime worker, 1940s. Beneath the bombs ; A daughter's a daughter ; Life is rather complicated ; By Mary Westmacott -- Part eight: Taken at the flood, 1950s. A big expensive dream ; They came to Baghdad ; Christie-land after the war ; Second row in the stalls ; A charming grandmother -- Part nine: Not swinging, 1960s. The mystery of the Christie fortune ; A queer lot ; Lady detectives ; To know when to go -- Part ten: Curtain, 1970s. Winterbrook ; After the funeral. 20220913. Christie, Agatha 1890-1976 Biography. 1900-1999. Women novelists, English 20th century Biography. Novelists, English 20th century Biography. Detective and mystery stories, English History and criticism. Women and literature England History 20th century. Authors, English 20th century Biography. Women authors, English 20th century​ Biography. Biography. Criticism, interpretation, etc. England. Biographies. History. Nonfiction. Non-Fiction. NON - FICTION . TXDRI