Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Her reputation rests on 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections that have sold over two billion copies, an amount surpassed only by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. Her works contain several regular characters with whom the public became familiar, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.

Agatha Christie's Disapearance

Despite all of Christie’s fame and success, she took a mystery of her own to the grave – and it would even baffle her sleuths Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. At around 9pm on December 3, 1926, Christie climbed into her Morris Cowley car and drove away from the family home in Berkshire. She would not be seen again for 11 days. More than 1,000 police officers and hundreds of civilians were involved in the search for the writer and, for the first time ever, aeroplanes were used. Some suggested Christie had killed herself or been murdered, while others said it was a publicity stunt for her new book. But on December 14, she was found safe and well at a hotel in Harrogate, North Yorks. She claimed to remember nothing and it was left to the police to try and piece the puzzle together.

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