To the dedicated reader, they can reveal plenty about the context in which she was writing – and about the woman herself.Ĭhristie was hardly the first successful writer to try out new material under a pseudonym, nor the last. But the six Westmacott books are still fascinating mysteries. Her name has even been bandied about at the trial of the century, albeit in the new form of “ Wagatha Christie”.īut what about Christie’s secret second writing life as a romance novelist under the nom de plume Mary Westmacott? This Sunday, BBC Radio 4 will dramatise her first Westmacott novel, Giant’s Bread, which features fewer dead bodies than we’re used to with Christie. Right now, Chichester Festival Theatre is staging the queen of crime’s fiendish Murder on the Orient Express, with Henry Goodman donning the brilliant Belgian detective’s famous moustache, while Kenneth Branagh is planning a third in his Poirot-based film franchise. Agatha Christie and her perfectly plotted whodunits will always be catnip to adaptors.
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