“It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.”

— Agatha Christie

This is in fact something an admirer said, which Christie quoted with disapproval in LIFE magazine (14 May 1956), p. 98
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English mystery and detective writer 1890–1976

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