Come, Tell Me How You Live
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Come, Tell Me How You Live is a short book of autobiography and travel literature by crime writer Agatha Christie. It is one of only two books she wrote and had published under both of her married nam
Dust-jacket illustration of the first UK edition
Robin Halliday Macartney
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Robin Halliday Macartney FRIBA was a British architect, painter and illustrator. Today he is mainly remembered as the designer of four book covers for Agatha Christie, who immortalized him as "Mac" in
Come, Tell Me How You Live
…from the actual events of the 1930s although she never specifies any year. In the last two months of 1934, Christie joined Max and a young architect Robin Macartney (called Mac in the book) on a surveying expedition in Syria. Mallowan's previous expedition and the first he commanded had been in Arpachiyah, north-east…
R. H. Macartney, 1954
Agatha Christie, Come Tell Me How You Live, first edition, 1946
OGS Crawford's house
Wall decoration by Macartney