![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, Benedict reminds readers that “we are all unreliable narrators of our own lives, crafting stories about ourselves that omit unsavory truths and highlight our invented identities.” Chapters alternate between the story of Agatha Miller meeting handsome pilot Archibald Christie in 1912 and a memoir written throughout 1926 in which Agatha plants clues to her disappearance as well as revealing her knowledge of the “latent danger of the dispensary” from her volunteer nursing work during WWI as well as her husband’s philandering. Claiming amnesia, Christie never disclosed her whereabouts.īenedict has richly imagined what transpired throughout those days during which Christie reconciles herself to the facts of her broken marriage. Accounts from strangers of “sightings” eventually lead to her discovery. Her disappearance sparked an unprecedented manhunt that involved over a thousand police officers, airplanes, and the specialist knowledge of fellow crime writers Dorothy Sayers and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Her abandoned Morris Cowley was found near a small, dark spring-filled lake in Surrey, her fur coat left inside. In December 1926, up-and-coming doyenne of detective fiction, Agatha Christie went missing for 11 days. ![]()
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