Agatha Christie Goes to War

Dr. Rebecca Mills is a lecturer at Bournemouth UniversityDr James Bernthal-Hooker is a guest lecturer at the University of Cambridge

• J.C. Bernthal and Rebecca Mills, IntroductionSarah Martin and Sally West, Mapping War, Planning Peace: Miss Marple and the Evolving Village Space, 1930-1962 Paula Bowles, Christie’s Wartime Hero: Peacetime Killer Brittain Bright, Writing Through War: Narrative Structure and Authority in Christie’s Second World War Novels Merja Makinen, Taking on Hitler: Agatha Christie’s Wartime Thrillers J.C. Bernthal, "When She Eats She Will Die": Informal Meals and Social Change in Sad Cypress and "And Then There Were None" Julius Green, "A Worrying, Nerve-Wracked World": Agatha Christie’s Emergence as a Playwright During and after the Second World War Federica Crescentini, "There are Things One Doesn’t Forget": The Second World War in "Three Blind Mice" and The Mousetrap Christopher Yiannitsaros, Displaced Persons: A Murder is Announced and the Condition of Post-War England Rebecca Mills, Detecting the Blitz: Trauma and Memory in Christie’s Post-War Writings Roger Dalrymple, "The Thrill When it Suddenly Went Pitch Black!": Blackout Cultures in A Murder is Announced and The Mousetrap