Gilbert Adair

No body in the library

The opening paragraph of Duchess of Death’s fourth chapter, in which its subject is about to have her first whodunit published, begins thus:

  • Duchess of Death: The Unauthorised Biography of Agatha Christie

    Richard Hack

    J.R. Books, pp. 320

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