The mysterious truth about Agatha Christie that you did not know

THE Thorns Christy, arguably, has written some of the best mystery novels in the history of literature with one of the protagonists of her works, the legendary researcher Hercule Poirot, being the only fictional hero to even receive an obituary from the New York Times.

However, what is interesting about the life of the English writer is the fact that for a short period of her life, her traces were lost by everyone. At the age of 36, she was already a successful writer, lost her beloved mother and her husband filed for divorce, as he was in love with another woman. According to History Extra, on the night of December 3, 1926, she said goodbye to her daughter with a kiss, removed her wedding ring and left the house driving overnight.

What followed was a huge irony of fortune – considering she was now starring in an unsolved mystery – that put her at the center of a mystery and hundreds of people, including more than a thousand police officers, searched for them. traces of.

The next morning, her car was found abandoned several miles away, launching an intensive search and rescue operation involving thousands of police and volunteers. Although divers, hounds and planes were added to the search, no trace of novelist. The press made things even worse, with a newspaper paying as much as λί 100 to anyone who had any information that would lead to Christie’s traces.

Finally, 11 days after the “escape” from her home, she was seen in a spa hotel in the north of England, where she had checked in using the surname of her husband’s mistress. Christie claimed she had almost no recollection of the whole incident, attributing it to a form of amnesia.