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And Then There Were 28: Crooked House by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

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The Importance of Credibility in a Book

It's a little hard to know exactly where this falls when we're comparing it to other books because she's doing things so differently. A 12-year-old has to have come up with what the plot mechanics are. I've got to give her props for featuring an actress as one of her main characters and it has nothing to do with anything. It seemed as if a lot of those characters, you know, were in previous Christie's. They were cliches. These characters just feel fresher.

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