Agatha Christie, A Biography by Janet Morgan

Agatha Christie, A Biography by Janet Morgan is a 393-page hardcover published in 1985 by Alfred A. Knopf, and is the stated fourth printing.  The dust jacket is enacased in a protective plastic cover.  Inside, the book shows no indication of use. Book Summary A superb, immensely readable biography of the most prolific and sucessful mystery writer of our century.  The only authorized biography of Agatha Christie, it has already been hailed by Antonia Fraser as "masterly and gripping," and written with "a verve and lucidity worthy of dame Agatha." Agatha Christie was quiet and reclusive all her life, firm in her belief that the public need know nothing of her but her books.  After her death in 1976, her family continued to protect her privacy.  But in 1980 her daughter, having decided that the time had come for a full account of her mother's life, made available to Janet Morgan all of Dame Agatha's papers, all of her personal effects (intact at Greenway, her house in Devon), and introdu