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In her autobiography, Christie states that this book was what she called “ the light-hearted thriller type ”.

She went on to say that they were always easy to write as they didn ’ t require too much plotting or planning, presumably in contrast to the very-tightly planned detective stories.

She called this era her “ plutocratic ” period in that she was starting to receive sums for American serialisation rights which both exceeded what she earned in the UK for such rights and was, at this time, free of income tax.

She compared this period favourably with the time at which she wrote these comments ( 1950 ’ s to 1960 ’ s ) when she was plagued with income tax problems which lasted for some twenty years and ate up most of what people presumed was a large fortune.