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Agatha Christie's Secret NotebooksThere are 60 pages of Notebook showing its origins, and thanks to these we can see the detailed working-out that went into one of Christie’s most ingenious novels. The setting exists in reality as Burgh Island, off the coast of Devon, a venue well known to Christie as she stayed at the hotel there on a few occasions. The island is cut off from the mainland twice a day at high tide and is reached by a sea-tractor. She utilises its geography to suit her purposes in creating a perfect alibi. That storehouse of plot devices, The Thirteen Problems, yet again provided the rough basis for this novel. вЂA Christmas Tragedy’ features two people, the murderer and a witness (in this case Miss Marple herself), вЂfinding’ a dead body before it has been murdered, thereby providing the killer with an impeccable alibi. In the case of the short story the body is that of a natural death victim, conveniently dead two hours earlier, but in the novel it is the live body of the killer’s accomplice. Both plots feature a large and camouflaging hat (also a feature of Dead Man’s Folly) ...» | Код для вставки книги в блог HTML
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