Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days
In December 1926 Agatha Christie disappeared in bizarre circumstances from her home in southern England. The discovery of the crime writer’s abandoned car led to the biggest manhunt in British history for a missing person. Eleven days later she was found in a northern spa town claiming to be the victim of amnesia.
Until the publication of this book in 1998 none of her biographers had come up with conclusive evidence as to what Agatha Christie did within the first twenty-four hours after she disappeared or whether her memory loss was genuine. Although the newspaper headlines made her famous, the private anguish that surrounded the episode ensured that she made no reference to it in her memoirs.
Jared Cade’s riveting biography – on which a BBC television documentary has been based – provides the answers to the mystery, including Agatha Christie’s long forgotten explanation of the notorious episode, along with startling accounts by her surviving relatives that reveal for the first time why she staged the disappearance with the help of a co-conspirator and how it all went terribly wrong. His sympathetic investigation reveals the incidents that shaped her character and how the fall-out from the episode affected the rest of her life.
Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days is a must for all Christie devotees.
Other books by Jared Cade
The Elusive Dietrich
Blue Mountains Tragedy
Where Silence Prays
Murder on London Underground
The Mammoth Book of Literary Anecdotes
Murder in Pelham Wood
Nightmare in St. Martin’s Lane
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