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satisfying suspense, of the horrid criminal. While those who know something of archaeological work in the Near East, and recognise in Mrs
Mallowan's minor misfortunes and victimisations an echo of their own experiences, will sometimes chuckle as they read, the ordinary person will find the whole thing too long drawn out. The book, indeed, is reminiscent of the 'letters from dear Uncle William' types of literature – excellent for reading aloud by those, and to those, who know Uncle William, but a shade tedious to persons outside the family circle."
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vivid picture of the human side of their expeditions and the personalities, both
European and Asiatic, involved. The latter, in particular, are presented in a very sympathetic manner. Christie's infectious enthusiasm for the region, its peoples and the life they led while working there comes through in the work in a way which led
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opined that, "For all its flippancy the book is a contribution to literature on the Middle East. For it contains nostalgic descriptions of the profusion of mounds that mark bygone lives, and of the silence that surrounds them now, and of the flowers that cover them if you arrive on the right morning
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of 28 December 1946 was less impressed: "The enthusiasts of detective fiction who regard the publication of a new "Agatha
Christie" as a landmark will experience something of a shock when they turn over these pages. Here is no ingenious plot, no artfully contrived love-interest, no unmasking after
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s issue of 22 November 1946 stated that the idea of writing the book was, "characteristically bright" and concluded, "The reader need not expect to find anything here about the famous
Mallowan excavations which have done so much to fill out the heretofore thin web of the story of the origins of
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edition as "a pure pleasure to read". In her 2007 biography of
Christie, Laura Thompson writes that the book, "is written to please one person, at least: her husband. It has a slightly manic style, as different as can be from that of her fiction, although in its way the book is equally artful".
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cultivation. That is to be sought in learned journals, and Agatha
Christie's part therein is no small one. We wonder how many of the people who enjoy her books think of their being written, as often as not, in the desert amid mounds of forgotten cities in a region that was once full of life."
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1943:Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures
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1959:Agatha and the Truth of Murder
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1540:collections
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975:Parker Pyne
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317:dustjackets
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1734:The Hollow
1528:The Burden
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1270:The Hollow
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