Agatha Christie Mistress of Mystery Author:G. C. Ramsey This is an appreciation of Agatha Christie as a novelist and short story writer and a discussion of the unique techniques which account in a large part for her fabulously successful career. Chapters deal with the mystery story as a form, mystery writers as social historians, devices of the profession, the careers of Agatha Christie and her two d... more »etectives, Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple. Appendices include all Christie titles alphabetized, full-length novels and short-story collections alphabetized, books and stories made into plays and films, and similar bibliographical information. Included also are sixteen pages of illustrations and an index. G. C. Ramsey is an instructor in English in Worcester Academy in Massachusetts and has long been an enthusiastic student in this country and abroad of Agatha Christie's writings.« less