Agatha Christie #[nn]

This German-language graphic novel biography — subtitled *Das Leben ist kein Roman* ("Life Is No Novel") — brings the remarkable story of Agatha Christie to the comics page, courtesy of writers Anne Martinetti and Guillaume Lebeau with art by Alexandre Franc. The cover, rendered by Franc in a clean, period-evocative style, shows a red-haired woman in a wide-brimmed hat and rust-colored sweater strolling along the deck of a sailing vessel, the open green sea stretching behind her beside a ship's mast and life ring. It's a quietly adventurous image that captures a life lived far beyond the page, and at 19.99 EUR from Egmont, it's a generous invitation into one of history's most fascinating literary lives.