When there is a murder there is a death, and when there is a death there has to be a doctor…
It was 1916 when Agatha Christie, née Miller, wrote her first whodunnit. She had been married for two years and had worked for three years in a hospital in Torquay, first as a nurse and then as a dispenser in the pharmacy. Some four years later The Mysterious Affair at Styles was published, and this treasured book as well as her fictional writing gives us clues to Agatha’s attitude to doctors and their work.
Apart from Agatha’s crime novels, there are numerous books written by fellow Christie enthusiasts on a range of topics, but one major subject which remains almost untouched is her doctors. This book introduces Agatha Christie readers to her medics in her full length novels under chapter headings from murderers, victims, sleuths, fakes, suspects, police surgeons, Harley Street, Nurses and GPs.