Yes, as Mary Westmacott, the crime novelist wrote stories which reflected the pain of her private life When an American writer connected the dots and unveiled Mary Westmacott as Agatha Christie in ...

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Writing under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, Christie explored the relationships between friends and family, and how they are influenced and shaped by other people and events – situations when ...

Earlier this year, perhaps sometime in April, I had the brilliant opportunity of reading Absent in the Spring (Collins, 1944) by Mary Westmacott. It was a beautiful novel about an elderly woman ...

She also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, The Mousetrap, and six romances under the name Mary Westmacott. In 1971 she was made a Dame for her contribution to literature.

Famous for her ingenious crime books and plays, Agatha Christie also wrote about crimes of the heart under the name of Mary Westmacott. Absent In The Spring, written under that name, is the book ...

Simon Brett (Charles Paris, Fethering and Mrs Pargeter detective series) chooses Agatha Christie under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, with Absent In The Spring. It’s a story without any ...

Absorbing these books is like viewing the world through the writer’s eyes—the pain she felt, the love she did not receive and the manner she perceived the people around her. Absorbing these ...

Famous for her ingenious crime books and plays, Agatha Christie also wrote about crimes of the heart under the name of Mary Westmacott. The Rose And The Yew Tree is set in a Cornish seaside town ...

Agatha Christie claimed she had amnesia after disappearing for 11 days in 1926. Now biographer Andrew Wilson says he has solved Christie's last great mystery This advertisement has not loaded yet ...