Agatha Christie, An Autobiography.

AGATHA CHRISTIE

Publication: Harper, 2010, London

First edition. Thick 8vo. Black cloth, titles stamped in metallic blue on the spine, front and rear endpapers are bright blue, 542 pp., introduction, preface, foreword, illustrated from photographs, [a few in color], epilogue, index. Laid-into a folder at the rear of the book is a bonus CD of Agatha Christie's voice recordings.

"Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Christie's readers and reviewers have maintained that her most compelling book is probably still her least well-known. Her candid "Autobiography," written mainly in the 1960s. modestly ignores the fact that Agatha had become the best-selling novelist in history and concentrates on her fascinating private life. From early childhood at the end of the 19th century, through two marriages and two World Wars, and her experiences both as a writer and on archeological expeditions with her second husband, Max Mallowan, Agatha shares the details of her varied and sometimes complex life with real passion and openness." ---- Dust jacket flap.

In 2008, her grandson, Matthew Prichard discovered a box of her old recording tapes with her dictating her Autobiography for her typist. The included CD contains highlights from these tapes in her voice.

As new, unread copy in dust jacket.