Download or read book A Talent to Deceive written by Robert Barnard and published by New York : Dodd, Mead. This book was released on 1980 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the thrillers and crime novels of Agatha Christie, analyzing her masterful solutions, strategems of deception, and ability to divert the reader's attention from the matter of real importance and revealing her racial and class prejudices.