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The Lady Vanishes: Agatha Christie’s Disappearance

by Guest9524 | 12 years, 8 month(s) ago

Mystery - In 1926 Agatha Christie, the world’s favourite crime writer, became involved in a real life whodunnit to puzzle even Poirot. Christie’s car was found buried in the bushes, headlights blazing, with a suitcase in the back and no sign of the author. After ten days and a national hunt Agatha was found reading the coverage of her own disappearance in a hotel in Yorkshire. Needless to say the police were not impressed. Claiming amnesia brought on by the stress of being jilted by her husband Archie, she returned to face her critics. But was this the whole story?

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toshiewoo

What I didn't realize until recently was that two of Christie's fellow authors Dorothy L Sayers and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were drafted in to help with the search effort.
11 days after she disappeared Christie was recognized, the police were informed, as was her husband who traveled to Harrogate to take her back home.

"For 24 hours I wandered in a dream, and then found myself in Harrogate as a well-contented and perfectly happy woman who believed she had just come from South Africa."

Writing for the Guardian newspaper in 2000, John Ezard interviewed the daughter of Christie's sister-in-law and friend, Nan Watts, who claimed that she learned the truth of what happened as a child while in the company of her mother and Christie herself.
She claims that on the night that she disappeared, she was hidden away by Nan Watts at their Chelsea home before being put on a train to Harrogate the following day.

"She then just sat there in her hotel room, hiding away...But she had signed the guests' register in the name Neele - the surname of her husband's lover...It was carefully orchestrated...She wanted Archie back...She wanted to give him a shock...If she had had amnesia she would not have signed the register in the other woman's name...My mother helped her because she was distraught. I think she went to my mother because she had been through a divorce. [Mrs Christie] never did it for the publicity. That was the last thing she would have thought of. She was very upset and shocked - it all went rather wrong."

In his article, John Ezard points out that following her death in 1976, her first wedding ring and Mr Christie's letters were found in her writing case. He also adds that Christie’s biographer Janet Morgan was not convinced by the 'revenge' theory, claiming that she was "sick and bewildered" before and after her flight.
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