With well-established approaches to Christie alongside hitherto understudied or new(er) approaches, the Handbook can serve as a starting point into Christie Studies, while it also presents innovative interpretations and an impressive amount of thorough research to non-newcomers to Christie.

English Studies

A thought provoking and stimulating read.

Cross-Examining Crime

Long known as crime fiction's best-seller and finest puzzler, Agatha Christie has recently been also recognized as a real social analyst. In The Bloomsbury Handbook twenty-one experts, including Val McDermid, give intriguingly varied accounts of Christie the world-aware searching novelist.

Stephen Knight, Honorary Research Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia.

The volume will be of particular interest to scholars, especially for the extensive bibliographical apparatus after each chapter, while general readers attracted to Christie may be interested in discovering new dimensions that her seemingly familiar stories can open up.

Forum for Modern Language Studies