Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison

Palgrave Macmillan 2022,

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Author

Pamboukian Sylvia A.

Publishers

Palgrave Macmillan 2022

Binding description

Dust jacket

State of preservation

Very Good

Binding

Softcover

Inscribed

First edition

Description

8vo, br. ed. 243pp. Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison examines Christieís female poisoners in the context of Christieís own experience in pharmacy and of detective fiction. In doing so, it uncovers an overlooked dynamic in which female poisoners deliver well-deserved comeuppance for gendered and classed wrongdoing ordinarily accepted in everyday life. While critics have long recognized male outlaws, like Robin Hood, who use crime to oppose a corrupt system, this book contends that female outlaws ñ witches and poisoners ñ offer a similar heritage of empowered femininity. Far from cozy and formulaic, Agatha Christieís outlaw poisoners offer readers the surprising pleasures of comeuppance, and they set the stage for contemporary detective fiction writers, more recent films depicting poisoning as empowering, and even poison gardens, which are tourist destinations that offer visitors the guilty pleasure of poison.