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Agatha

American  
[ag-uh-thuh] / ˈæg ə θə /

noun

  1. a first name: from a Greek word meaning “good.”


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Marcel Proust wrote in bed; Dalton Trumbo in a bath; Agatha Christie only needed “a steady table and a typewriter.”

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This septuagenarian prefers the crime novels of such genre masters as Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen and John Dickson Carr.

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Marcel Proust wrote in bed; Dalton Trumbo in a bath; Agatha Christie only needed “a steady table and a typewriter.”

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“I never had a definite place which was my room or where I retired specially to write,” Agatha Christie said in her autobiography.

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The Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul proudly advertises its “Agatha Christie Room,” complete with a replica of the black Underwood typewriter Christie used.

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