Everyman's Guide to the Mysteries of Agatha Christie

About the Book

Everyman's Guide to the Mysteries of Agatha Christie is a reference book covering Christie's 238 stories. It provides data never before published about both important and trivial facts. Dedications, time periods, and locations have been laboriously researched, and provided with "time warp" explanations. Even trivial data such as newspapers (100 in all), pubs (95) and automobiles (136) are shown as well as each story in which they are listed. English sayings totalling 259 are shown with the book(s) in which they appear, including a brief explanation of their meaning.

Yet Guide is much more than a list of facts. It is an informative reference book about Christie's writings. As well, different perspectives on many of the perplexing mysteries within her mysteries are provided.

Finally, Guide is not an alphabetical list of stories or characters. Instead, it lists many entrancing "errors" of sketches and text with comments explaining where possible the reasons for their existence. Most importantly, "Guide" does not betray any book's endings nor the identity of the villain, a rule that genuine Christie devotees always try to uphold.

About the Author

Bruce Pendergast, born in 1933 in Toronto, Canada, is a retired professional engineer. He started writing as a hobby when he joined Rotary in 1980 where he wrote the weekly bulletin during the 14 years he was a Rotarian. Retiring from his engineering company in 1997, he has spent his retirement years writing four books, the first of which is Everyman's Guide to the Mysteries of Agatha Christie. His other three books are all entirely different, one being a fictional murder mystery, one a puzzle book, and the fourth a whimsical, autobiographical book of anecdotes.

Bruce and his wife Marilyn have been married since 1959 and live in the small city of Guelph, Ontario, approximately 60 miles west of Toronto. They have two grown children, David and Suzanne.