“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.
