Entertaining read but confusing and partly fragmentary. Timeline at the back helps to make sense of Agatha Christie's life.

This was such a charming and fast read. I loved the idea of Christie talking to her characters. It was very well done. I would recommend this one to every Christie fan.

(3.5) Agatha opens – appropriately – with the real-life mystery at the heart of Agatha Christie’s story. In December 1926 the celebrated crime novelist disappeared, prompting a full-scale police investigation. She had abandoned her car by a lake in Surrey and traveled by train to Harrogate, where she checked into a hotel under a false name. Was it all an elaborate act of revenge for her husband’s philandering? Christie strikes up a conversation with Hercule Poirot, her most famous creation, in t...

The author Anne Martinetti and Guillaume Lebeau begin this biography with a possible explanation for Agatha Christie's disappearance in December 1926. It's plausible, and had me wondering what Christie would say, if anything, about this scenario. An interesting thread running through this biography is Agatha arguing with Hercule Poirot, and threatening to kill him. Miss Marple and Tommy and Tuppence also show up to chat with Christie. These conversations lend the biography an amusing and fantast...

A pretty slim graphic bio that works to make Christie’s strong independent spirit come to life. As the cover makes clear, Christie grew up a flaming redhead, and that image is meant to be emblematic of that spirit. She was a strong girl who was discouraged from reading—it’s not good for girls to read too early on, her mum said—until the age of 8, but as a woman she was a nurse, flew planes, traveled the world, married archaeologist Max Mallorwan and wrote dozens of mystery novels and plays that

An interesting interpretation of Agatha Christie's life, and I found it enjoyable. I think, however, some of the scenes didn't flow into each other the best, and you have to keep a close eye out for the changing dates, because it can be a little confusing at the start. The art style wasn't my favourite, but I think this is a good book for anyone interested in finding out quickly and easily about Agatha's life and books.

This graphic biography of Agatha Christie is a fun, quick, informative read. It's all framed by Agatha's mysterious 11-day disappearance in 1926, after she found out about her husband Archie's infidelity. The book covers her travels around the world with Archie (including surfing in South Africa and Hawaii), her wartime work as a nurse, a journey on the Orient Express that inspired one of her best-known novels, her visits to archaeological digs in the Middle East, where she met her second husban...

The art was lovely and it was interesting to learn a little more about Agatha Christie (though I reckon her autobiography will likely do a much better job :P), but I felt the graphic novel was too bitty and just lacked something more (perhaps pages, haha).

I'm not sure who's to blame for the "meh" feel about this book, the authors or Agatha Christie! I read her autobiography a few years ago, that has the same detached view of her life, which already made me wonder at the time if she didn't want to open up more to the public, or if she wasn't able to. Looking at her upbringing and her generation in general and the way they were taught to deal with emotions (stiff upper lip etc.) I suspect it's the latter. The art of this volume is absolutely gorgeo...

3. I liked the art in this graphic novel biography of Agatha Christie. The text, though, left a bit to be desired. It lacked a strong narrative flow and was choppy. There weren’t good transitions between scenes and I felt a little like it gave me whiplash jumping from one event to the next, but the timeline in the appendix was very nice. Overall, I enjoyed the summary and glimpse into the details of Agatha Christie’s life.

It's been a long time since I read any Agatha Christie. I was big on her in high school, but somehow grew out of the habit. It wasn't from any dissatisfaction with her writing or anything. I think what happened was that I drifted over towards science fiction and stopped reading so many mysteries in general. I do have fond memories of her books, though, and enjoyed this book immensely.It is, as you'd surmise, a biography of Christie in comics form. Everyone has probably heard the story of her bri...

Agatha Christie is such a fascinating woman. This was a fast, fun way to read about her life but it really only skimmed the surface. Agatha has conversations/arguments with Hercule Poirot throughout the graphic novel so that we get to hear her thoughts about her life as well as her feelings about her most famous character. The graphic novel was a good method to whet my appetite making me think I would enjoy a more in depth look at her life.

This was a very fast and fun read! It's a graphic novel which offers a very insightful glimpse into Agatha Christie's life, ranging from her childhood to her death. I especially liked the imaginary conversations she had with her most famous character, Poirot. If you're a fan of Agatha Christie's works and have always wanted to know a little bit more about the her as a person, this graphic novel is a great start!

Ce graphic novel est en quelque sorte une source rapide pour les lecteurs désirant connaître la Dame du crime.Agatha Christie est une femme très indépendante, intelligente, ayant un très grand amour pour les voyages durant lesquels elle accumule tant d'expérience qui se refletera dans ses nombreux ouvrages.Même s'il a bien été réalisé, quand on tourne la dernière page, on a le sentiment que Mme Christie deumeure en elle même un mystère.This graphic novel was a sort of short introduction to the L...

A slim and excellent biography on the great writer and woman who was Agatha Christie.

4.5 stars. I loved this biographical graphic novel about my favourite author. I especially enjoyed the style of the illustrations and the way that Christie's feelings about her famous detectives were portrayed. A must for any fans of The Queen of Crime.

This made me want to go back and reread all of my favorite Agatha Christie novels. Actually, I just might do that next... This was the first graphic novel biography I've read and it was definitely an interesting format and I did like how it turned out. I feel like I would have appreciated it even more in novel format, simply because I'm just not a visual person, but overall, it was a great and fascinating read and it was so interesting to see Christie's life laid out in this way.

If you’re seeking a highlights reel with little heart, this book will do nicely.

Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time having sold roughly 2 billion copies and her books are among the most widely-published in the world, third only to Shakespeare and the Bible! But while generations of readers have enjoyed her gripping whodunits, her own life wasn’t quite as interesting as shown in this short biographical comic, Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie. The book opens with her mysterious disappearance in December 1926, arguably the most compelling episode o...

I was excited to pick up this book but soon had to force myself through. One would have to work quite hard to make Christie's life dull, but I'm afraid this book did seem a bit dull to me. Even the opening, when Christie disappears and takes on an alternate identity for a spell, didn't come off as very interesting or deepen my sense of her as a human. Maybe there was a distance that made it hard to feel intimate with the person in these pages? A lack of conversationally or analysis. But the even...