![]() ![]() Plus, since Curtain connects us to the history of both the author and her sleuth, as well as the history of readers like me, I’m boldly including this as my entry for the Tuesday Night Bloggers’ topic of “Mystery and History.” Call it killing two birds with one stone, even if one of the birds is limping slightly! ![]() ![]() What they delivered in 1975, though far from Christie’s best, was a vast improvement on her work of the previous decade, and, for various reasons, it must be considered an important novel in the canon. Christie did not pass away until 1976, and it would be kind to imagine that her family was motivated by more than money, that they wanted Dame Agatha to experience praise for a work that hearkened back to her halcyon days. 1975?!?!? After October’s foray into 1907, I thought Rich might take pity on us and choose a nice juicy year from the 40’s or 50’s, but no such luck! It feels like nobody of note wrote anything in 1975, and so, in desperation, I turned to a book that was, if not written, then published that year: Agatha Christie’s “posthumous” novel, Curtain. Every month, Rich Westwood at Past Offenses gathers mystery fans from all over the stratosphere to celebrate the mystery literature and films of a specific year, and for November he has chosen. ![]()
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