Letter from the Agatha Christie archive reveals the Poirot author's horror at an "awful" and "common" book cover
Agatha Christie in 1967 Photo: JOHN SELBY/REX
She was the queen of crime fiction, but Agatha Christie should also be recognised as one of the most formidable businesswomen of her era, according to academics.
A newly released letter from the Christie archive illustrates the care that the author took over the marketing of her books, dismissing a publisher’s proposed cover design as “common” and “awful”.
The book in question was Sad Cypress, a courtroom drama published in 1940 and featuring Christie’s Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot.
In a note to her literary agent, Edmund Cork, Christie complained that her publisher, the Collins Crime Club, had come up with a terrible book jacket. More
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