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All About Ableism in Agatha Christie (with Three Guest Co-Hosts)

All About Agatha Christie

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The Body in the Library

I'm really pleased about that she's actually included disabled characters and she thought about it. In the body of the library, when you read the ballboard of it, I have said that she actually sent a story around a disabled person that she actually saw. She describes as the person as being elderly and a crippled man, which is not a term we tend to use today,. But that became the pivotal point of the story after seeing that disabled person with their family in the hotel she was staying at. So seeing a disabled person actually inspired her to write the body in the library. A lot of other people would have been the slits of that person. But she actually, I think it

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