Agatha Christie and New Directions in Reading Detective Fiction

This book brings a new lens to the work of Agatha Christie through a series of close readings which challenge the official solutions by Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. This illuminating text will interest students and scholars of crime and detective fiction, literary studies, and comparative literature.

Autorentext

Alistair Rolls is Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has written monographs on Boris Vian, French crime fiction and fetishism as critical praxis.

Inhalt

Introduction Part I: Beginnings and Other Fabulae 1. Murder on the Orient Express and/or The Mysterious Affair in Syria 2. Anti-Beginning and the Ragged Edge of 'The Witness for the Prosecution' 3.Telling Ghost Stories: Hallowe'en Party Part II: Other Bodies in the Library 4. The Dreams of The Body in the Library 5. The Truth of The Body in the Library and The Murder at the Vicarage 6. Dead Man's Folly: Reanimating Dead Bodies and Desires Part III: Following in Bayard's Footsteps 7. What Caroline Said to Me: Alternative Living Arrangements in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 8. When the Landscape's Whitening: And Then There Were None 9. Curtain: **Saving Judith, Once and Again 10. Conclusion