Correspondence with Billy Collins, going on display this month, reveal a partnership that was extremely lucrative, if sometimes scratchy
Despite her global fame and being feted in the tabloids as “the richest woman writer in the world”, Agatha Christie was no more immune from disputes with her publisher than less successful rivals, according to private correspondence revealed for the first time.
The letters, which are going on show at the Harrogate crime writing festival from 20 July as part of an exhibition to mark the bicentenary of Christie’s publisher Harper Collins, reveal that like her famous creation Hercule Poirot, the author was not without vanity.
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