Agatha Christie’s authorial career became fairly stable about a decade in, so she had the freedom to write non-mystery novels (sometimes called “mainstream” or “literary”
Agatha Christie wraps up her six Mary Westmacott books – non-mysteries written under the pseudonym – with “The Burden” (1956 in the UK). It’s not
In the fifth Mary Westmacott novel, “A Daughter’s a Daughter” (1952), Agatha Christie returns to the almost-autobiography format of “Unfinished Portrait,” my pick for the
Of Agatha Christie’s first four Mary Westmacott novels, the fourth — “The Rose and the Yew Tree” (1948) – is my new favorite. The title
“Unfinished Portrait” (1934), Agatha Christie’s second Mary Westmacott novel, is a straightforward bildungsroman of Celia going from childhood to a suicide attempt to possible peace
“Absent in the Spring” (1944), the third of the six Mary Westmacott novels (but in the second slot in the “Six Mary Westmacott Novels” collection),
In “Giants’ Bread” (1930, sometimes published as “Giant’s Bread”), her first Mary Westmacott novel, Agatha Christie seems to be as driven to write a non-genre