Agatha

Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie by Anne Martinetti and Guillaume Lebeau, art by Alexandre Franc, translated by Edward Gauvin, 119 pages

While she's best known for her fantastic mystery novels, Agatha Christie had an extraordinary life, full of travel, archaeology, family, and her own mysterious disappearance for several months in the 1920s. This graphic novel provides a skimming biography, touching on her young life, her two marriages, her travels, her time as a nurse during the war, and, of course, her writing. I liked how the creators used Christie's best-known characters to help illustrate her thoughts; her arguments with Poirot are fantastic. That said, I would have felt much better reading this right after an in-depth regular biography; this one assumes that the readers already know the ins and outs of Christie's life.