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Agatha Christie has always been very popular in France. I worry sometimes that maybe the French must think that the English all live in sleepy villages secretly plotting to kill one other and then relying on faintly absurd foreigners to do our detective work for us. But the Gallic passion for Agatha Christie has over the years translated itself – if you forgive the pun – into an array of imaginative ways of publishing and re-publishing Agatha’s books, from omnibuses and editions for younger readers to potentially one of the most controversial – the bande dessinée, or what Wikipedia describes as ...

  • Posted 14 January 2009 at 11:37a.m. GMT
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