Christie’s notes on ‘whodunnits’
Containing over 150pp of notes and fragmentary drafts for two of her novels and a play, an autograph notebook used by Agatha Christie while in Baghdad around 1948 – perhaps while travelling with her husband, the archaeologist Max Mallowan – sold for $15,000 (£11,625) in a Swann Auction Galleries (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) sale of May 4.
The novels were A Murder is Announced of 1950 and They do it with Mirrors of 1952, and the play Sp…