“In a stranger-than-fiction spin, crime novelist Agatha Christie I can’t think of a better way to celebrate this wonderful author, can you?īarnes & Noble // Kobo // Books-A-Million Hesitations put aside for the nonce, I let myself go with the flow and found this to be a highly entertaining “what if”. Think about it-who better to contemplate doing murder and then work to figure a way out than the Queen of Mystery? The style of this mystery is just right for the times and the then-existent quirks of society with a despicable villain, a wandering husband, a shameful mistress and a heroine who’s not exactly helpless. Wilson showed restraint in not letting the premise go too far and become laughable, proving his true regard of this remarkable woman.
Solving the puzzle of where Dame Agatha was during those few days is one of the holy grails of the mystery world and, hey, this could have happened, right? If anybody was ever born to successfully commit murder, she’s the one, but I think I know too much about her persona and her life to fall completely for the plot. As a longtime Christie enthusiast, I couldn’t help wanting to see what Andrew Wilson would do with this idea and I was rewarded, with some reservations. Having Agatha Christie be the central figure in a murder is taking things a step further considering who she was and her undoubted mind for crime and her well-known yet unexplained disappearance is the perfect backdrop to such a scenario. Real people have been featured as characters in works of fiction before now, pretty frequently, in fact. Writing about murder is a far cry from committing a crime, and Agatha must use every ounce of her cleverness and resourcefulness to thwart an adversary determined to exploit her expertise and knowledge about the act of murder to kill on his behalf. But, before then, you are going to disappear.” So begins a terrifying sequence of events-for her rescuer is no guardian angel, rather he is a blackmailer of the most insidious, manipulative kind. She feels a light touch on her back, causing her to lose her balance, then a sense of someone pulling her to safety from the rush of the incoming train. Unless you want the whole world to learn about your husband and his mistress.”Īgatha Christie, in London to visit her literary agent, is boarding a train, preoccupied with the devastating knowledge that her husband is having an affair.
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