3 December 2008

This day in history:
Agatha Christie disappeared on December 3 1926, having left her Surrey home just before ten that evening. Her car was found see-sawing at the edge of a chalk pit, with no clues as to where the authoress had gone. Subsequently it emerged that she had made her way to London and then took the train to the genteel spa town of Harrogate in Yorkshire. In Harrogate she took a room at the luxurious Swan Hydro Hotel, registering under the name Mrs Neele. The police alerted Archie Christie, and the authoress returned home. To her dying day she insisted she had suffered from amnesia brought on by the double blow of bereavement and the impending end of her marriage, which did indeed end two years later. read more