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On the Blue Train by Kristel Thornell

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November 2016, no. 386

On the Blue Train by Kristel Thornell

Allen & Unwin $29.99 pb, 344 pp, 9781760293109

On the Blue Train by Kristel Thornell

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November 2016, no. 386

On the Blue Train is Kristel Thornell’s reimagining of Agatha Christie’s mysterious disappearance in 1926. Thornell might have let her imagination fly, given that both Dorothy L. Sayers and Arthur Conan Doyle involved themselves in the nationwide search for the missing woman, but instead she has stuck close to the established facts: Agatha was grieving over her beloved mother’s recent death when her husband Archibald asked for a divorce; there was a fracas; Agatha’s car was found abandoned; she vanished and was discovered ten days later, using the surname of Archibald’s lover, at a spa hotel in Harrogate.

Francesca Sasnaitis reviews 'On the Blue Train' by Kristel Thornell

On the Blue Train

by Kristel Thornell

Allen & Unwin $29.99 pb, 344 pp, 9781760293109

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