Escribo, escribo. ¿Cómo escribes?: Con intriga y misterio

“Carlo's appointment marked a turning point in Christie's compositional methods and her success as a writer. "As soon as Rosalind [Christie's daughter] started school I began to prepare to start dictating a story. I was so nervous about it that I put it off from day to day. Finally the time came: Charlotte and I sat down opposite each other, she with her notebook and pencil. I stared unhappily at the mantelpiece, and began uttering a few tentative sentences. They sounded dreadful. I could not say more than a word without hesitating and stopping. Nothing I said sounded natural. We persisted for an hour. Long afterwards Carlo told me that she herself had been dreading the moment when literary work should begin. Although she had taken a shorthand-typing course she had never had much practise in it, and indeed had tried to refresh her skills by taking down sermons."

However hesitant the technique, both women found their stride together within the year and used the method to produce the first Christie masterpiece, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, published in 1926 by her new publishers, Collins.”

“Miss Fisher from Agatha Christie May 1926. In memory of commas, colons & full stops!”

(Complaciendo el gusto que tienen estas páginas por las maravillosas coincidencias, la de hoy es que la obra en cuestión es la primera que leí de Agatha Christie.)

Créditos:

Extracto del texto introductorio al catálogo Agatha Christie. Inscribed books from the library of Charlotte ('Carlo') Fisher (“Agatha Christie's secretary, amanuensis, and close personal friend”), editado por la librería Peter Harrington (100 Fulham Road, Chelsea – Londres).

Fotografía de Agatha Christie y reseña de la dedicatoria tomadas del referido catálogo.