Jared Cade
Author of Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days
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The Book of Extraordinary Impossible Crimes and Puzzling Deaths: The Best New Original Stories of the Genre (2020) — Contributor — 9 copies
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Agatha’s Autobiography is silent on the matter. She recalls how they chose Styles, remarking that it was an unlucky house and that she had felt it as soon as she moved in. She then moved swiftly on merely saying:
The next year of my life is one I hate recalling. As so often in life, when one thing goes wrong, everything goes wrong. (page 356)
Sadly she was right, as Jared Cade reveals from information given to him by Judith and Graham Gardner. Judith’s mother was Nan Watts, Agatha’s sister-in-law and life-long friend. They showed him photographs and private letters shedding light on the situation. It makes a fascinating book. I did feel as though I was intruding into Agatha Christie’s private life that she had not wanted made known but Cade writes sympathetically.… (more)