Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days
by Jared Cade
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Now under option to a Hollywood film companyIn December 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared in bizarre circumstances from her home in southern England. The discovery of the crime writer's abandoned car led to the biggest manhunt in British history for a missing person. Eleven days later she was found in a northern spa town claiming to be the victim of amnesia.Until the publication of this book in 1998 none of her biographers had come up with conclusive evidence as to what Agatha Christie did show more within the first twenty-four hours after she disappeared or whether her memory loss was genuine. Although the newspaper headlines made her famous, the private anguish that surrounded the episode ensured that she made no reference to it in her memoirs.Jared Cade's number one bestselling biography provides the answers to the mystery, including Agatha Christie's long forgotten explanation of the notorious episode, along with startling accounts by her surviving relatives that reveal for the first time why she staged the disappearance with the help of a co-conspirator and how it all went terribly wrong. His sympathetic investigation reveals the incidents that shaped her character and how the fall-out from the episode affected the rest of her life.
Illustrated with 60 photographs, many of them from private albums, this fully expanded 2011 ebook edition draws on a newly discovered cache of family papers, diaries and letters, to which Jared Cade was given exclusive access, and reveals even more fascinating secrets about her life and works. Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days: The Revised and Expanded 2011 Edition is a must for all Christie devotees."This is the only biography that tells Agatha's life story as it really was. Jared Cade's insight into her personality is unsurpassed." Judith and Graham Gardner, relatives of Agatha Christie"Jared Cade is an acknowledged expert on Christiana and Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days has received much acclaim for its impressively detailed examination of the Queen of Crime's disappearance." Crime TimeNUMBER ONE bestselling author Jared Cade was born in 1962 and lives in London. He is a lifelong fan of Agatha Christie, and in 1993 he appeared on The 64,000 Dollar Question, correctly answering all questions on his specialist subject of Agatha Christie's novels and winning what was then British television's biggest cash prize. While researching his biography about Agatha Christie's life he located several short stories she had written in the 1920s that had escaped detection by scholars for decades. He acted as a research consultant in 1997 for the BBC documentary series Mysteries, which featured a segment on the writer's disappearance. "Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days" was first published in 1998 and still holds the distinction of being the only biography to be endorsed by relatives from her brother-in-law's side of the family. In 2002, it provided the basis of a documentary for the BBC.
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In December 1926 Agatha Christie disappeared from her home, Styles, in Berkshire. She was found eleven days later in a hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire apparently suffering from amnesia. Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days by Jared Cade delves into the mystery of her disappearance. The book is not just about those eleven days but is a biography that reveals how those eleven days and the events that led up to her disappearance influenced the rest of her life.
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 show more 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. show less
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 show more 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. show less
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- Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days
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- 1998
- People/Characters
- Agatha Christie; Archibald Christie; Max Mallowan; Arthur Conan Doyle; Rosalind Christie Hicks; Matthew Pritchard (show all 12); Nan Watts; Marge Miller Watts; Jimmy Watts; Judith Pollock Gardner; Graham Gardner; Nancy Neele
- Important places
- Berkshire, England, UK; Greenway, Devon, England, UK; Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK; Torquay, Devon, England, UK; Styles, Sunningdale, Berkshire, England, UK; Abney Hall, Cheshire, England, UK (show all 7); Winterbrook, Cholsey, Berkshire, England, UK
- Important events
- Disappearance of Agatha Christie; World War II
- First words
- On 3 December 1926 a distraught woman mysteriously vanished from her home in Berkshire, England.
Agatha was the third child of the American-born Frederick Miller and his wife Clarissa Boehmer Miller who was born in Belfast and raised in England. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)In short, Rosalind would have hated Laura Thompson's biography.
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- Robyns, Gwen; Barnard, Robert; Wagstaff, Vanessa; Osborne, Charles; French, Sarah; Travis, Alan (show all 7); Grafton, Sue
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