Comments on: Our Year Of Agatha Christie Covers: 2: The Body In The Library http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/03/our-year-of-agatha-christie-covers-2-the-body-in-the-library/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:28:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Tom http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/03/our-year-of-agatha-christie-covers-2-the-body-in-the-library/#comment-394293 Tom Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:43:11 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/03/our-year-of-agatha-christie-covers-2-the-body-in-the-library/#comment-394293 BITL has one of the better Agatha misdirections in it too. BITL has one of the better Agatha misdirections in it too.

]]> By: a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/03/our-year-of-agatha-christie-covers-2-the-body-in-the-library/#comment-394280 a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:47:21 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/03/our-year-of-agatha-christie-covers-2-the-body-in-the-library/#comment-394280 i don't think there's a "body in the library" in holmes or fr brown -- there's library action in "the unpleasantness at the bellona club", but i think it's a letter or a will being (re)written, and the body itself is in the snug! anyway it's a tremendous device for bringing the frisson close to home, since the agatha reader = someone likely to fund in the library, and it is by repute a tranquil retreat of a room so OH NOES MY CASTLE IS BROKE OPE psychologically m.r.james has a terrific GHASTLY ENCOUNTER IN THE STACKS, in the "tractate middoth" <--- i think in a funny way THIS is the ancestor of the sub-genre i don’t think there’s a “body in the library” in holmes or fr brown — there’s library action in “the unpleasantness at the bellona club”, but i think it’s a letter or a will being (re)written, and the body itself is in the snug!

anyway it’s a tremendous device for bringing the frisson close to home, since the agatha reader = someone likely to fund in the library, and it is by repute a tranquil retreat of a room so OH NOES MY CASTLE IS BROKE OPE psychologically

m.r.james has a terrific GHASTLY ENCOUNTER IN THE STACKS, in the “tractate middoth” <— i think in a funny way THIS is the ancestor of the sub-genre

]]> By: Pete Baran http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/03/our-year-of-agatha-christie-covers-2-the-body-in-the-library/#comment-394273 Pete Baran Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:30:07 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/03/our-year-of-agatha-christie-covers-2-the-body-in-the-library/#comment-394273 Clearly the classic cover then. Would it have been in house Collins design, or a named designed. Credit where due if possible. Pity about those Y's. I always assume locked room mysteries take place in libraries. Don't know much about this one. Clearly the classic cover then. Would it have been in house Collins design, or a named designed. Credit where due if possible. Pity about those Y’s.

I always assume locked room mysteries take place in libraries. Don’t know much about this one.

]]> By: Alan http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/03/our-year-of-agatha-christie-covers-2-the-body-in-the-library/#comment-394254 Alan Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:53:52 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/03/our-year-of-agatha-christie-covers-2-the-body-in-the-library/#comment-394254 That top cover is re-used in a 2005 facsimile edition. Also a 1990 'centenary' edition (centenary here referring to her birth - ie agatha being 100 had she lived). Oddly many of this titles covers seem to be 'typographic' - though this is not generally a trait of agatha books in general. One very bland 80s edition has the capital L fallen over on its side - like an body what has been killed OMGzzzz That top cover is re-used in a 2005 facsimile edition. Also a 1990 ‘centenary’ edition (centenary here referring to her birth - ie agatha being 100 had she lived).

Oddly many of this titles covers seem to be ‘typographic’ - though this is not generally a trait of agatha books in general. One very bland 80s edition has the capital L fallen over on its side - like an body what has been killed OMGzzzz

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