Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making by John Curran

Author:John Curran [Curran, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Detective, Biography & Autobiography, Writing, Nonfiction
ISBN: 978-0061988363
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-02-20T05:00:00+00:00

Dying Harlequin

Cover her face (Helen)

Crooked House (The Alt[eration]s) Done

And it is this date that completely contradicts all the theories we have received about the date of the book’s creation. There is no other novel that could possibly fit the description of ‘Cover her face (Helen)’ so it is definitely a reference to the book that we know as Sleeping Murder. But if it was only in the planning stages (and a very early stage to judge by the brevity of the note) in September 1947 the writing of it is placed much later than heretofore presumed.

This complication is underlined on the following page when we find a date more than a year later again, with still only the barest outline of the plot:

Plans Nov. 1948

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