Agatha Christie: Murder In The Making: More Stories And Secrets From Her Notebooks - Plot & Excerpts
The appearance of the ‘latest Agatha Christie’ in a newspaper or magazine was mutually advantageous. Both author and periodical enjoyed a boost in sales and publicity. Although not every novel had a pre-publication appearance, as early in her career as The Mysterious Affair at Styles and as late as Sleeping Murder Christie was regularly serialised on both sides of the Atlantic. Changes to the title and often to the text were tolerated, as the financial rewards were significant. The Saturday Evening Post in America paid $14,000 for Cards on the Table and $16,000 for Dumb Witness. But the enterprise was not without its pitfalls. A competition to accompany the serialisation of The A.B.C. Murders, in which readers were invited to send in their solutions, was won by a reader who got every detail of the plot correct. Christie’s account of the genesis of Hercule Poirot has appeared in print only once since, in the Agatha Christie Centenary Celebration book, edited by Lynn Underwood and published in September 1990.
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