The Plot Construction in Agatha Christie's Novels
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This paper views Agatha Christie’s works on how they’ve been formed. Her early novels were created on the device called “the least likely person ploy”, however, following the development literary narration, it turned into an innovated device, namely “the most likely suspect”, which also makes an obvious classification in her whole-life writing period.
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