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Agatha Christie’s Gun Man

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Show Notes

The childhood nightmare that informed a crime writing career.

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Books mentioned in this episode:— An Autobiography by Agatha Christie— Giant's Bread by Mary Westmacott— Unfinished Portrait by Mary Westmacott— "The House of Dreams" by Agatha Christie— Come, Tell Me How You Live by Agatha Christie— Peril at End House by Agatha Christie— Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie— Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie— Third Girl by Agatha Christie— At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie— Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie— Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie— Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie— Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott

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