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Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie by Guillaume LeBeau, Anne Martinetti
4.0
adventurous funny informative fast-paced

Graphical telling of the life of Agatha Christie. This book is full of things I didn't know about Agatha Christie (e.g. she was an aviation early adopter). The early part of the book focuses on her week and a half disappearance in 1926, showing it in the context of her first marriage's breakup. Second half of the books covers the rest of Agatha's life: her dabbling in archaeology, her second marriage, & her very successful writing career. All the while, she's followed around by & talks with her recurring detective characters, especially Poirot, who constantly grates on her. I like how Poirot is depicted in an especially Belgian cartooning style.