Agatha Christie has always been the target of snobs. We should stand up for her

I read every one of her novels in my early teens, only to move on loftily when I developed intellectual pretensions. She couldn’t write, I would explain, if anyone spoke well of her, and her characterisation was deficient. It took ‘flu in my early thirties to open my mind. As I lay listlessly in bed, I begged for Christie on the grounds that she wouldn’t be too taxing. After the first, I had my epiphany. Quite simply, when it came to plotting, the woman was a genius

Source : Ruth Dudley Edwards in The Telegraph - http://goo.gl/ph3sj

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