{"id":2431,"date":"2026-01-03T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-body-in-the-library-christie-agatha\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:29:00","slug":"the-body-in-the-library-christie-agatha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-body-in-the-library-christie-agatha\/","title":{"rendered":"The Body in the Library – Christie, Agatha"},"content":{"rendered":"
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T<\/span><\/span>here are certain clich\u00e9s belonging to certain types of fiction. The \u201cbold bad baronet\u201d for melodrama, the \u201cbody in the library\u201d for the detective story. For several years I treasured up the possibility of a suitable \u201cVariation on a well-known Theme.\u201d I laid down for myself certain conditions. The library in question must be a highly orthodox and conventional library. The body, on the other hand, must be a wildly improbable and highly sensational body. Such were the terms of the problem, but for some years they remained as such, represented only by a few lines of writing in an exercise book. Then, staying one summer for a few days at a fashionable hotel by the seaside I observed a family at one of the tables in the dining room; an elderly man, a cripple, in a wheeled chair, and with him was a family party of a younger generation. Fortunately they left the next day, so that my imagination could get to work unhampered by any kind of knowledge. When people ask \u201cDo you put real people in your books?\u201d the answer is that, for me, it is quite impossible to write about anyone I know, or have ever spoken to, or indeed have even heard about! For some reason, it kills them for me stone dead. But I can take a \u201clay figure\u201d and endow it with qualities and imaginings of my own.<\/p>\n

So an elderly crippled man became the pivot of the story. Colonel and Mrs. Bantry, those old cronies of my Miss Marple, had just the right kind of library. In the manner of a cookery recipe add the following ingredients: a tennis pro, a young dancer, an artist, a girl guide, a dance hostess, etc., and serve up \u00e0 la<\/span> Miss Marple!<\/p>\n

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