Books like Agatha Christie by Gillian Gill

Agatha Christie’s 1939 mystery, first titled Ten Little Niggers, revolves around a deadly puzzle on an isolated island, where a group of millionaires is killed one by one. It was later published as And Then There Were None.

A locked‑in murder on the Orient Express forces detective Hercule Poirot to unravel a mystery among a diverse group of passengers during a snowbound night.

When Belgian detective Hercule Poirot returns to the English village of King's Abbot, he confronts the murder of industrialist Roger Ackroyd, unraveling a web of family secrets and hidden motives that reveal the culprit was nobody he expected.

On a luxury Nile cruise, the glamorous Linnet Ridgeway is found murdered, and intrepid detective Hercule Poirot must uncover the truth amid intrigue, secrets, and false leads.

Colonel and Mrs Bantry find a dead young woman in their library, and her body may be linked to another murder. With their own detective skills stalled, they turn to Miss Marple to unravel the mystery.

After sixteen years she is convicted, Caroline Crale’s daughter Carla asks Hercule Poirot to reopen the murder case of her father Amyas, but the investigation turns out to be far more complex than it first appeared.

Three generations of the Leonides family share a crooked house when patriarch Aristide is murdered, and suspicion falls on every family member. Detective Charles Hayward must uncover the killer to protect the family’s name.

A London messenger finds himself entangled in an international conspiracy when delivering the memoirs of a deceased European count, leading to murder, blackmail, and a race to prove innocence at the historic English estate of Chimneys.

Agatha Christie’s posthumously published autobiography traces her life from early childhood through two marriages, two World Wars, her writing career and archaeological adventures with husband Max Mallowan.

The Agatha Christie Companion offers a comprehensive catalogue of Christie’s 160 works, including novels, plays, films and television adaptations, with detailed annotations, biographical context, and critical commentary.

A 1977 essay collection offering a comprehensive, multi‑perspective portrait of Agatha Christie, featuring contributions from notable critics and authors.

A LITERATURE OF THEIR OWN quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation, the book uncovered the long but neglected tradition of women writers and the development of their fiction from the 1800s onwards. It includes assessments of famous writers such as the Brontës, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Drabble and Doris Lessing, but also presents critical appraisals of Mary Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and Sarah Grand --- to name but a few of those prolific and successful Victorian novelists - --once household names, now largely forgotten.

In Kathleen Tynan’s ‘Agatha’, famed detective writer Agatha Christie vanishes during marital turmoil, only to be discovered in a hotel under her husband's mistress’s name, with no memory of the event.

Agatha Christie A to Z provides a factual, encyclopedic companion to the life and work of the 20th‑century detective novelist, covering her bibliography, relationships, disappearance, and adaptations.

From back cover: This unique biography tells the story of an extraordinary fifteenth-century woman who journeyed all over Europe from England to the Holy Land. A vigorous and passionate woman, Margery Kempe was married and had fourteen children when she deserted her family to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to expiate a "secret sin" in her early life. Along the way she meets many famous prelates and dignitaries, gets into all sorts of scrapes, and survives a feverish voyage in the stinking galleys of a Venetian boat. Drawing on the chronicles of her contemporaries and on her own clear-eyed autobiography -- dictated to a priest near the end of her life and said to be the first written in English -- these memoirs reveal a woman who has strange ideas about such things as sin and sainthood, dress, diet, and sex, and provides a colorful and detailed picture of everyday medieval life in England and around the rim of the Mediterranean. Part-time historian Louise Collis brings a novelist's flair to this fascinating, well-researched story.

An illustrated, scholarly guide that charts Agatha Christie’s life, works, and critical reception, enriched with rare photographs and updates on her publications, films, and TV adaptations.