There's something about novels that seems to provoke crime sprees in individuals. I heard once that the guy who shot Reagan and the guy who shot John Lennon both had gotten obsessed with
The Catcher in the Rye. I also read that
Rage was found in the backpacks of several school shooters, prompting Stephen King/Richard Bachman to pull it out of print.
Now, we can add
Agatha Christie to the fray.
No wonder my fifth grade English teacher looked at me askance when I did my book report on
And Then There Were None . . .
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