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All About the Dedications of Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

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How to Dedicate to Agatha Christie

The first dedication of Agatha Christie's in the mysterious Affair at Styles was to her mother Clara Miller. The next title that falls in this category is the murder on the links published in 1923 to my husband, a fellow enthusiast for detective stories. And if we are to believe what Christie would write a little over 10 years later in unfinished portrait, one of her very autobiographical Mary West McCott novels, I don't know if the advice and criticism Archie Christie provided her was necessarily helpful. Let's take Christie's dedication here at her word. It's lovely when one spouse dedicates a book to another.

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