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Agatha Christie and a bad case of literary criticism

She was the "Queen of Crime", whose murder mysteries centred on a final "big reveal". But newly seen correspondence between Agatha Christie and those who staged her plays, including her most famous, The Mousetrap, show that, despite her stature as a master and innovator of the crime genre, theatre producers were much less in awe of her star status.

SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM on May 10, 2014

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