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Who is the best-selling author of all time? Agatha Christie! Lots of mystery lovers out there. After Pat told us about Agatha Christie's biography, we dug into the story and the characters and unearthed all the questions and answers. I think the general consensus was that the book was fun to read and enough of a page turner to hold our interest but wasn't going to be anyone's favorite. This story is known as one of Christie's best.
We found the story to have a mix of predictability and surprise. There was a pattern, with the deaths and the disappearances of the Indian figurines. But you couldn't be sure at the end what would happen. After learning the solution to the mystery, you could see that it made sense on several levels; but none of would have guessed based on the information given in the story.
Someone commented that one of the ways in which this mystery was "old-fashioned" was that there was no blood or gore.
The open question at the end was: did the characters deserve the punishment they received?
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The movie with a fictional account of Agatha Christie's diappearance was called Agatha and was released in 1979. It starred Dustin Hoffman, Vanessa Redgrave, and Timothy Dalton.
There was also a book written about it, Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days, by Jared Cade (2006).
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