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Portions of chapter 8 were previously published as “Queering Dame Agatha Christie: Barry Sandler’s Camp Adaptation of The Mirror Crack’d (1980),” in Queer/Adaptation: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Pamela Demory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 33–47).

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