Agatha Christie's picnic basket – junk or artefact? You decide
University College London has a jumbled collection of objects and is asking visitors to vote on what deserves to be kept
Agatha Christie's picnic basket – a wonderfully Miss Marple-ish object holding a bizarre assemblage including fragments of 4,000-year-old pottery, a door handle, a sheet of newspaper and a key – almost certainly did not belong to the world's most famous crime writer.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 19 October, 2009
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