Mysterious Disappearnce Of Agatha Christie

The Odd Disappearance and Reappearance of Agatha Christie

 

 

 

Agatha Christie's name needs no introduction. Everyone must have read about the life of this famous writer who made people a fan with his words. But today we will talk about a true story that turned Agatha Christie's personal life into a crime novel. Police and agencies were searching for her but she was missing.

 

We are talking about the time when the popular mystery writer went missing for three weeks in 1926, her husband became a suspect in her disappearance.

 Agatha Christie:

The Legendary Agatha Christie is the best-selling mystery author of all time. However, at age 36, Agatha unexpectedly disappeared, only to become the main character in a real crime inquiry.

 

On the morning of December 4, 1926, in Newlands Corner, England, Agatha Christie’s car was found vacant, about an hour’s drive from her home. It seemed she had disappeared into thin air. Some believed the worst; that her husband Archie had done her in. The story provoked a sensation. How could one of the famous women in England simply vanish?.

 

Marriage:

 

She was born Agatha Miller in 1890 and grew in the prosperous upper-middle class of the English community. When Agatha was 24, she wedded Colonel Archibald Christie, a handsome pilot in the Royal Flying Corps. Though many obstructed the marriage, Agatha and Archie married on Christmas Day of 1914. Archie was soon sent off to war.

 

While Archie was battling in France, Agatha began her writing career, creating the famous Belgian detective, H. Hercule Poirot. Each book Christie wrote had slightly nicer success than the one before. Until her fifth one, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. It was her first big hit.

 

In 1926:

 

In 1926, twelve years into their marriage, Agatha, Archie, and their young daughter Rosalind, moved into a palace. They called it Styles, after Agatha’s first novel. Archie was now a prosperous investment banker.

 

Later, in 1926, Agatha’s mother, Clara, died. Agatha fell apart. She took Rosalind to the home where she had grown up to sort through her mother’s things. Though the move was temporary, it dragged on and on and Archie stayed away. Meanwhile, Agatha fell into a serious depression. When Archie did eventually come to visit, he brought bad news. Archie had become involved with a woman named Nancy Neal, and he wanted a divorce.

 

Disappearance:

 

In a last-ditch action to save her marriage, Agatha took Rosalind and moved back home. Then, on December 3, 1926, Archie took off lonely, saying he was going to a weekend house party, most likely a rendezvous with his mistress.

 

According to several reports, either around 9:30 or 11 o’clock that night, Agatha left the house, visibly disturbed. The maids were stunned when they saw her depart with a small travel bag and fur coat. Agatha left a statement to her secretary and asked that all her weekend appointments be abolished. Another note, of an unknown subject, was addressed to Archie.

 

The next morning, Agatha’s evacuated car was found just an hour’s drive from Styles. It had completely gone off the side of the road.

 

Archie Christie was found at Archie’s house party. He had the awful timing to meet with authorities just as they were starting to suspect foul play. The search for Agatha had started. A nearby pool called Silent Pool, which Agatha had used in one of her earlier stories, was hauled at least twice. And common citizens joined the army in a ground search of the encircling areas. Shortly, the press spun Christie’s disappearance into a tail of killing, suicide, and cheating.

 

Reports:

 

Slowly, eyewitnesses came ahead to clarify clashes they had with Agatha before she disappeared. The first was Earnest Cross, who was walking to work on the morning of Agatha’s disappearance. Cross said Agatha looked like an upset. She wore only a thin dress, despite the tough weather. According to Cross, Agatha drove off into the opposing way from Newlands Corner, the village where her car would later be found. Two railroad porters also spoke with Agatha outside the station and believed that she had boarded a train.

 

Eleven days after Agatha Christie had been reported missing, she was discovered at a gorgeous spa, 200 miles from her home. She was registered under the last name Neal, the same name as Archie’s mistress. The chief inspector spent no time bringing Archie up to the spa.

 

Theories:

 

For explanations known only to herself, Agatha at first recognized Archie as her brother, not her husband. Soon after they were reunited, Archie and Agatha shortly left. They would never remark Agatha’s unusual disappearance. The press believed that Agatha had undergone from amnesia. But specialists, like author Gillian Gill, have their theory:

 

“I believe that Christie had an explicit and horrible fight with her husband. It drove her over the edge. She had been discouraged, now she becomes on some level psychotic. She is not herself. She takes on another personality. She wanders off. She gets on the train. She takes another name. She goes into this hotel and she lives another life. That’s very, very, very extraordinary, but it’s known. It’s reported in the annals of psychology. And we know that Agatha Christie was a different woman.”

 

Others, like Author Gwen Robyns, think it was a propaganda stunt:

 

“I think she schemed and planned it from the start. She would utilize the media to push the only thing she knew, which was revenge, mystery, and the likelihood of murder. She checked in to this hotel under the name Neal, her husband’s girlfriend’s name. I think it’s just wildly funny. I think she took enormous pleasure in the fact that the police shadowed Archie. He couldn’t go anywhere because they doubted him of murdering her. And I think she took incredible delight in reading this in the papers. Again, I think in a kind of revenge and twisted up sort of way, she was thinking it was very funny.”

 

After that, Agatha and Archie soon went their diverse ways. Agatha married archaeologist Max Mallowan in 1930, two years after Archie had wed Nancy Neal. By all reports, both pairs had long, happy marriages.