Although he seemed like a good man, I found him a little too pretentious and self-assured. He thinks that she is dead and that her husband has something to do with it and he wants to prove it.
Then there is Superintendent William Kenward, the detective in charge of the investigation of Agatha Christie’s disappearance. Dr Kurs is portrayed as a diabolic and dark man, like a villain out of one of Agatha Christie’s mysteries.
The novel doesn’t focus only on Agatha Christie, but also on other characters that play a role in the story. Andrew Wilson depicts her as a smart woman with a great mind, but by portraying her fears, her hopes and her insecurities, he makes her more human. In my mind, Agatha Christie is the genius behind the creation of Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and other amazing and twisty stories, but here Andrew Wilson portrayed her as a mother who loves deeply her daughter and would do anything to protect her as a wife in love with her husband who hopes he won’t leave her as a daughter still grieving over her mother’s death as a bestselling author who feels the pressure of the readers and, finally, as a woman who underestimates herself, her character, and her look. Fearing not only for her life, but also for the lives of the people she loves, Agatha Christie has no choice but to disappears for ten days and do everything that this man asks her. She is first attacked, then saved, and then blackmailed by the same man, a Dr Kurs who wants her to commit the perfect murder. The novel starts with Agatha Christie at a train station in London. She doesn’t remember what happened and the mystery was never solved, but Andrew Wilson creates a fantastic fictional story of what happened during these ten days in A TALENT FOR MURDER. She suddenly disappears and, even though the entire country is looking for her, she turns up in a hotel only ten days later. On the professional side, the success of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd has created expectations from her readers and she is struggling to finish her new novel, The Mystery of the Blue Train. On the personal side, she misses her mother who died two years earlier and she doesn’t accept that her husband is leaving her for another woman. In December 1926, the Queen of Crime Agatha Christie was going through a lot both personally and professionally. Although I am a big fan of Agatha Christie and her novels, I don’t know much about her personal life and this novel gave me the chance to find out more about her so I’d like to thank Jess Barratt and Simon & Schuster for providing me with a copy of the book.
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