![]() ![]() ![]() History tells us that Christie’s husband, Archie, informed her. A gripping opening sentence teases O’Dea’s dark side (A. That morning, Archie had told Agatha that he wanted a divorce to marry his mistress, Nancy Neele, who was also a weekend guest at that house. In The Christie Affair, Nina de Gramont revisits the story with arguably more artistry and ingenuity than any previous novel. De Gramont ( The Last September) offers an intriguing new theory of why Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days in this superior thriller, which places the woman Christie’s husband, Archie, was having an affair with at the timehere the fictional Nan O’Deaat its center. She may or may not have made a stop at the nearby village of Godalming to peer into the ground-floor windows of the house where her husband, Archie Christie, was a guest for the weekend. ![]() Christie was wearing a fur coat and hat and carried only an attache case. She also left her beloved little terrier, Peter, who habitually lay down beside her as she wrote. She left behind her sleeping 7-year-old daughter, Rosalind, in the care of the maid. 3, 1926, Christie got into her car - a little green Morris Cowley that she’d bought with earnings from her early novels - and drove off from her house in the suburbs near London. Here’s a quick rundown of the details: On the winter evening of Dec. The mystery of Christie’s 11-day disappearance in 1926 is rivaled only by the mystery of Jimmy Hoffa’s far-more-permanent disappearance in 1975 as the most famous “cold case” in modern times. There’s only one “cold case” story in the entire Agatha Christie canon, and it’s the one Christie herself lived, not wrote. ![]()
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