Cracking Christie.SCIENTISTS from Warwick and Birmingham claim they have cracked the secret behind the success of all-time best-selling novelist Agatha Christie. They say they are a step closer to working out a mathematical formula that makes a book "unputdownable un·put·down·a·ble adj. Informal So well written and entertaining as to be difficult to put down. unputdownable Adjective ". According to the study, Christie uses literary techniques mirroring those employed by hypnotherapists and psychologists, which have a mesmeric mes·mer·ism n. 1. A strong or spellbinding appeal; fascination. 2. Hypnotic induction believed to involve animal magnetism. 3. Hypnotism. [After Franz Mesmer. effect on readers. Researchers say it could mean the structure of her novels creates physiochemical physiochemical /phys·io·chem·i·cal/ (fiz?e-o-kem´ik-il) pertaining to both physiology and chemistry. physiochemical pertaining to both physiology and chemistry. responses which cause people to read them again and again. It may finally explain why she ranks as the best-selling novelist of all time, with an estimated two billion copies of her books in print, they claim |
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