Agatha Christie. Witness for the Prosecution

Alexander Livergant - literary critic, translator, editor -in -chief of the magazine Foreign Literature, professor of the Russian State University. The author of the biographies of Redyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham, Oscar Wilde, Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Graham Green, Virginia Wolf, Palem Grenville Woodhaus. Romanov and stories. Under the inventive feather of Agatha Christie, the classic detective reached unprecedented heights, the unraveling of the crime in her novels is always unpredictable.
A long, unusually rich life, the immense in volume of the creator of the legendary detectors of Erkul Poirot and Miss Marl - it would seem a rare example of well -being. The author of the biography, relying on many, including first published in Russian materials, draws a slightly different picture: it turns out that the writer’s life was full of the most unexpected turns - and sometimes resembled the “twisted” plots of her novels