An interesting talking about Agatha Christie. ❤️

As I wrote some days ago, on Saturday (in the afternoon), I went to an interesting meeting about one of my favorite writers: Agatha Christie!
I started to read her novels when I was a young girl and, along the time, I collected all her books, some of them in different languages and different editions.
Years ago, when I worked in the bookshop of our friend Elena, I met an awesome man called Lucio Nocentini, not also a writer and a fabulous painter, but also a renowned expert in the life and the novels written by Christie. He's a great collectors of her books and he is the lucky owner of some first editions of them.
When I read he was in my city to talk about Agatha I couldn't resist and so Saturday, in the late afterrnoon, while outside was raining hard we went in the beautiful large room inside an ancient building called Palazzo dei Vescovi to listen him!

It's difficult to describe the life and the work of the English author Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) in just few words, because everything is so interesting to know. She wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections and it is one of the greatest writers in the mystery genre.

There are a lot of movies and tv series from their novels (and also about her "disappeareance" in the 1926) and, just to know, her mistery "The mousetrap" is the world's longest-running play performed since 1952!

I use to read and read again her novels (sure, even if I perfectly know who was the killer 😁) and it's like to meet an old friend for me. ❤️

I'm pretty sure you know Christie is known for her detective novels, but maybe you don't know she wrote also 6 different novels under the pseudonym
Mary Westmacott. To use that name gave her the freedom to write something different and intimate, something that tells more about her thoughts and her feelings. The theme of the talking was that kind of novels and I appreciated to talk about something different from the "usual" Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple (even if I love soooo much them!).

Like I wrote, along the time I collected a lot of Christie's novels and, in the following pics, you can see some of them:

See ya soon and stay safe,
Silvia

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