John Banville, Sinead Crowley, Liz Nugent, Sophie Hannah, Val McDermid, Christie scholar John Curran and many more crime writers give their take on the Queen of Crime
Sizing up: Agatha Christie is measured for her wax statue at Madame Tussaud’s. “All of us who write crime fiction owe her as great a debt as we do the inventor of the printing press,” said Linwod Barclay. Photograph: Getty
I used to think of my early teenage addiction to the works of Agatha Christie as the literary equivalent of pool-hall prowess, the sign of a mis-spent youth. Looking back on it now, it seems clear that Enid Blyton was the gateway drug: the Famous Five and the Secret Seven gave me a craving that soon only Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple could satisfy.
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