Agatha Christie: Witness for the Prosecution

Alexander Livergant — literary scholar, translator, editor-in-chief of the magazine Foreign Literature, professor at RGGU. Author of biographies of Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham, Oscar Wilde, Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Graham Greene, Virginia Woolf, P. G. Wodehouse. Agatha Christie: Witness for the Prosecution — the first portrait of the famous and most widely read author of detective novels and stories in the Russian language. Under the inventive pen of Agatha Christie, the classic detective reached unprecedented heights; the solutions to the crimes in her novels are always unpredictable. A long, extraordinarily rich life, an immense body of work by the creator of legendary detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple — seemingly a rare example of well-being. The biography's author, drawing on many materials, including those published in Russian for the first time, paints a somewhat different picture: it turns out that the writer's life was full of unexpected twists — and sometimes resembled the intricate plots of her novels.