![]() ![]() Newspaper headlines from South Africa to Alaska front-paged the story day by day. The disappearance captured the imagination of the public in astonishing fashion, not only in England but throughout the world. Christie’s abandoned car was found beside a hedge not far from a lonely stone quarry in the neighborhood. Shortly after dinner on a black December night she decided to motor alone across the Downs and do some thinking, something not unusual for a writer pondering plot complications. Christie was living with her husband, Col. This real mystery began on the wintry Surrey Downs of England where Mrs. And (to pile paradox on paradox, again in murder-mystery fashion) the event which caused the spotlight of public attention to blaze upon her was itself a most baffling mystery- one in which she personally was the flesh-and-blood principal character. Christie has in her time received an enormous amount of publicity. That’s about the net of it.īut (to point a paradox of the variety you’ll find in so many of her own murder mysteries) Mrs. Her manuscripts arrive without any of the explanations and interpretations in which most authors indulge, they’re published, they’re successful - some more than others. Even her agent and her publisher can supply little information about her. Christie is something of a mystery woman. She has done it by keeping all of her crimes on paper.Īlthough a large part of the English-speaking world has read one or more of Agatha Christie’s many mysteries at one time or another, very few people know much about her-and this is an age when the public usually knows all about its celebrities. Somebody once said that she has made more money out of murder than any other woman since Lucrezia Borgia. Mystery Writer, Mystery WomanĪll of the name is Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller Christie Mallowan. The story was recounted in T he Saturday Evening Post in 1941. ![]() In 1926, she left her husband and seven-year-old daughter and inexplicably disappeared without a trace. ![]()
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