Agatha Christie : a very elusive woman

Preface: Hiding in plain sight -- Part one: Victorian girl -- 1890s / 1. The house where I was born -- 2. Insanity in the family -- 3. The thing in the house -- 4. Ruined -- Part two: Edwardian debutante -- 1900s / 5. Waiting for the man -- 6. Best Victorian lavatory -- 7. The Gezireh Palace Hotel -- 8. Enter Archibald -- Part three: Wartime nurse -- 1914-18 / 9. Torquay Town Hall -- 10. Love and death -- 11. Enter Poirot -- 12. The Moorland Hotel -- Part four: Bright young author -- 1920s / 13. Enter London -- 14. Enter Rosalind -- 15. The British mission -- 16. Thrillers -- Part five -- 1926 / 17. Sunningdale -- 18. The mysterious affair at Styles -- 19. Disappearance -- 20. The Harrogate Hydropathic Hotel -- 21. Reappearance -- Part six: Plutocratic period -- 1930s / 22. Mesopotamia -- 23. Enter Max -- 24. I think I will marry you -- 25. Eight houses -- 26. The golden age -- Part seven: Wartime worker -- 1940s / 27. Beneath the bombs -- 28. A daughter's daughter -- 29. Life is rather complicated -- 30. By Mary Westmacott -- Part eight: Taken at the flood -- 1950s / 31. A big expensive dream -- 32. They came to Baghdad -- 33. Christie-land after the war -- 34. Second row in the stalls -- 35. A charming grandmother -- Part nine: Not swinging -- 1960s / 36. The mystery of the Christie fortune -- 37. A queer lot -- 38. Lady detectives -- 39. To know when to go -- Part ten: Curtain -- 1970s / 40. Winterbrook -- 41. After the funeral -- Sources -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index -- Picture acknowledgements