Crime, Narrative and Meaning in Agatha Christie’s Interwar Fiction
By Ewelina Agnieszka Gradwicka, London Metropolitan University. This dissertation examines how Agatha Christie’s interwar detective fiction illuminates the narrative foundations of criminological explanation. While Christie’s novels are often approached as entertainment, this study argues that they offer a sophisticated engagement with questions central to criminology: how crime is explained, how motive is constructed, and how moral judgement is shaped. The research problem
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