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Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days
Jared Cade
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Paperback, 336 pages; 2011 (1998)
$19.95
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December 1926: a local man from a southern English town finds a car on a landing below a cliff with a woman's coat inside. Police determine that the vehicle belongs to a young, beautiful author whose husband has just run off with another woman, but nobody has an explanation for what happened. Though it sounds like the plot of a Hercule Poirot mystery, the missing woman was Agatha Christie herself! What followed was the largest manhunt in British history for a missing person and a saga that made Christie a household name. The author was found in a resort town eleven days later. She claimed amnesia but most believed her actions to be a publicity stunt. In this riveting biography of the Queen of Mystery, Jared Cade explores the circumstances of the disappearance as the crux of Christie's life, and reveals how fallout from the strange sequence of events would affect both the author and her work for her remaining fifty years.
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