Agatha christie the crooked house book6/28/2023 She held a fairly high administrative post in one of the Foreign Office departments out there. I first came to know Sophia Leonides in Egypt towards the end of the war. I feel that I myself was only their scribe. I don’t know what put the Leonides family into my head-they just came. However, practically everybody has liked Crooked House, so I am justified in my own belief that it is one of my best. But perhaps the author isn’t the best judge of his or her own work. I often wonder whether people who read a book can know if it has been hard work or a pleasure to write? Again and again someone says to me: “ How you must have enjoyed writing so and so!” This about a book that obstinately refused to come out the way you wished, whose characters are sticky, the plot needlessly involved, and the dialogue stilted-or so you think yourself. I saved it up for years, thinking about it, working it out, saying to myself: “One day, when I’ve plenty of time, and want to really enjoy myself-I’ll begin it!” I should say that of one’s output, five books are work to one that is real pleasure. This book is one of my own special favourites.
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