Disappearance of Agatha Christie

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The disappearance of Agatha Christie was the widely publicised eleven-day absence of the English writer Agatha Christie in December 1926. At the end of 1914, she married the Royal Flying Corps officer Archibald Christie, with whom she had her only child, a daughter, Rosalind Hicks. In 1916, the aspiring writer finished her first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and by the mid-1920s, had established herself as a recognised author of detective and thriller fiction, with her fame and royalties steadily growing. At the start of 1926, at her husband's insistence, the Christies bought a mansion in Sunningdale called "Styles". During this period Archie began an affair with an office typist, Nancy Neele, and in August 1926 he told his wife that he had fallen in love with someone else. The couple spent several months trying to repair their marriage unsuccessfully. On 3 December 1926, during a particularly serious quarrel at their home, Archie declared that he saw no possibility...

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