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3 Lady Nancy Astor: Appointment With Death
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8 Dame Gracie Fields: A Murder Is Announced
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9 Lord Carnarvon: The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
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10 Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh: Dead Man’s Folly
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JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES:
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11 Robert Graves: Towards Zero
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12 Madge Watts: The Claimant
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14 Dr Crippen: Three Act Tragedy
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17 The Sinking of the Lusitania: The Secret Adversary
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18 Lawrence of Arabia: They Came to Baghdad
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19 Eden Phillpotts: Peril At End House
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21 Frank Vosper: Love From A Stranger
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JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES:
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The Agatha Christie Collection No. 72, Partners In Crime (Agatha Christie Ltd, 2004)
23 Dennis O’Neill: The Mousetrap
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The Agatha Christie Collection No. 68, Passenger to Frankfurt (Agatha Christie Ltd, 2004)
25 Dame Margaret Rutherford: Murder Most Foul
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26 Roy James: At Bertram’s Hotel
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JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES:
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27 Lord Mountbatten: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES:
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28 Sir Peter Ustinov: Evil Under the Sun
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JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES:
Hindustan Times
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29 Vanessa Redgrave: Agatha
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The Times
30 Agatha Christie: Ordeal by Innocence
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Sunday Chronicle
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Other titles published by The History Press
Agatha Christie: The Finished Portrait
DR ANDREW NORMAN
When Agatha Christie, the so-called ‘Queen of Crime’, disappeared from her home in Sunningdale in Berkshire for eleven days on 3 December 1926, the whole nation held its breath. From a painstaking reconstruction of Agatha’s movements and behaviour during those eleven days, Dr Andrew Norman is able to shed new light on what, in many ways, has remained a baffling mystery. Only now, fifty years after Agatha’s death, is it possible to explain fully her behaviour during that troubled time.
978 0 7524 4288 4
The Ripper Code
THOMAS TOUGHILL
The Ripper Code is a fascinating combination of literary and conventional detective work, which is as original as it is enthralling. After showing that the official Ripper files contain little of forensic interest, the author approaches the subject of the killer’s identity from an entirely different angle – the life and works of Oscar Wilde. The author also claims that Jack the Ripper was placed in an asylum after the last murder in order to keep secret a royal indiscretion.