Agatha christie disappearance
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It tells the story of how six years previously nurse Florence Nightingale Shaw - the god daughter of nurse Florence Nightingale - died after being beaten to death on a train from London to Bexhill, East Sussex. She was found 11 days later after a search involving a thousand police officers, tracked down to a hotel in North Yorkshire - and claimed she couldn't remember a thing.Ī Channel 5 drama Agatha And The Truth of Murder explores a new theory in a plot that could have leapt out of the pages of one of her novels. Historians have been debating for nearly 100 years as to exactly why she vanished during the height of her fame in 1926, leaving her home in Sunningdale, Berkshire after kissing her seven year old daughter Rosalind goodbye.
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Most (including me) think it was a fugue state and she really had temporary amnesia.Historians have been debating for nearly 100 years as to exactly why Agatha Christie vanished during the height of her fame in 1926Īgatha Christie's mysterious disappearance that sparked a nationwide police manhunt is to be brought to life in a TV drama that claims she went missing to solve a real-life murder. There's another theory which claims Agatha wanted to get revenge on Archie for his affair and embarrass him. Others believe it was all a publicity stunt for her newest book. Agatha, after a year in which she'd lost her mother, asked him to give them another chance. After more than a decade of married he confessed he'd fallen in love with another woman and wanted a divorce. Some say her husband killed her or attempted to. The press were livid after finding out she was in a spa and wrote scathing news articles about her. When she was finally found there, her husband issued a statement saying she suffered from amnesia. Reportedly, she walked into town, took a train to London where she bought a winter coat, sent a letter saying she was going to a spa in Yorkshire and checked into it under the name Theresa Neele. Famous novelists were brought in to help, such as Arthur Conan Doyle. There was huge pressure on the police to find her or make some progress on the case.
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She had written a series of confusing letters in the previous days, including one in which she claimed she feared for her life. Others thought she disappeared for publicity and some thought her husband killed her. There was a natural spring close to where they found the car, the Silent Pool, rumored to be the site of a young girl and her brother's death. She was gone.įor 11 days no one could quite figure out what happened there. Her abandoned car was found down a slope at Newlands Corner near Guildford, with her personal belongings and clothes scattered inside. The evening of the 3rd of December, at her Berkshire home, Agatha kissed her sleeping daughter and drove away. What a lot of us don't know is that she completely vanished for 11 days in 1926.
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We've seen a Poirot movie or read her books and to most of us she is this awesome lady that wrote good crime novels.
Most of us are aware of who Agatha Christie was. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap. She also wrote six romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best known for the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections she wrote under her own name, most of which revolve around the investigations of such characters as Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple and Tommy and Tuppence. Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, DBE (née Miller 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright.