![]() ![]() Arguably, there is a less well-developed, though even earlier, incidence of this trope in Christie’s work. I hope to take a closer look at this practice at a later date. ![]() ![]() Recently, we’ve seen a number of crime fiction novels include characters with Dementia as a means of adding confusion, delaying the investigation or increasing the intrigue elements of their plots. However, though it never mentions the word Dementia, (the term did not come into widespread use until the 1980s), the novel, much of which is set in a retirement home, is one of the first examples I’ve come across where Dementia -or senility as Christie calls it- is used as a plot device in crime fiction. First published in 1968, Agatha Christie’s 59 th crime fiction novel, By the Pricking of My Thumbs might not be the most obvious inclusion in my Dementia bookcase. ![]()
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