Notes
Foreword
Mathew Prichard
Preface
Shadows in Sunlight—Interlude at Greenway, Summer 1954
Introduction
1
A Murder is Announced:
The Beginning of a Career
2
Dumb Witness: The Evidence
of the Notebooks
Exhibit A: The Detection Club
3
The Moving Finger:
Agatha Christie at Work
Exhibit B: Other Crime Writers in the Notebooks
4
Cat among the Pigeons:
The Nursery Rhyme Murders
Exhibit C: Agatha Christie in the Notebooks
5
Blind Man’s Buff: A Game of Murder
Exhibit D: True Crime in the Notebooks
6
The Girl in the Train: Murder Aboard
7
Elephants Can Remember:
Murder in Retrospect
Exhibit E: N or M?—A Titles Quiz
8
Destination Unknown: Murder Abroad
9
In a Glass Darkly:
The Unknown Christie
Exhibit F: The House of Dreams: Unused Ideas
10
Sanctuary: A Holiday for Murder
11
Poirot Investigates:
The Labours of Hercules
Exhibit G: Murder Is Easy: Seeds of Inspiration
12
The Body in the Library:
Murder by Quotation
Appendix
Swan Song—Two Last Stories
The Capture of Cerberus
The Incident of The Dog’s Ball
Select Bibliography
Index of Titles
The Complete Miss Marple
Acknowledgements