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\nIn this progr am\, we will explore some of the sources of Christie's genius: the strange nightmare that haunted her throughout childhood\; her work in a hospital dispensary during World War I\; the devastating break-up of her first marr iage that invigorated \;her writing. \; We will also probe Christi e's eleven day disappearance in 1926\, a "case" that's still open. We will also delve into some of her novels during this program\, "Murder on the O rient Express\," "And Then There Were None\," "Death On The Nile\,"and Chr istie's notorious masterpiece\, "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd."
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Maureen Corrigan is the book critic for the NPR program\, "Fresh Air" a
nd a Mystery columnist for \;The Washington Post. She's also the autho
r and narrator of "The Mysterious \;Case of Agatha Christie" (2021)\,
an Audible Original Book. In 1999\, Corrigan won an Edgar Award from The M
ystery Writers of America for her contributions to the two-volume antholog
y\, "Mystery and Suspense \;Writers" (Scribner). Maureen is also the D
istinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown
University.
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