Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days
by Jared Cade
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Author: Jared CadeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-12-31
ISBN: 0720612802
Number of pages: 258
Publisher: Peter Owen Ltd
Book Reviews of Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days
Book Review: The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But The Truth : Instead of guesswork supported by facts, research, and logic.
Summary: 5 Stars
There have been many books written about Agatha Christie since she died 32 years ago and I place this brilliantly researched biography second only to her own autobiography. A number of events, not least the famous disappearance, were completely ignored and left out of her autobiography - either at her own discretion or that of her immediate family's since it was published after her death. Jared Cade's objective and affectionate accounts fills in the missing blanks and unravels what happened when she disappeared. His biography is particularly merit-worthy because it is the only biography to be officially endorsed by Agatha Christie's sister-in-law's side of the family. The same relatives also featured with him in a television documentary based on this book. If you missed it, don't despair. Buy this book instead. A great book that deserves a place on any self-respecting Christie addicts bookshelves.
Summary of Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days
The original 1998 edition.
In December 1926, Agatha Christie became front-page news when she vanished in bizarre circumstances from her home in Berkshire, England. Eleven days later the crime writer was found in a hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire, reading newspaper accounts of the search for herself and claiming to be the victim of amnesia. Up till now none of her biographers has come up with conclusive evidence as to what Agatha Christie did in the first twenty-four hours after she disappeared or whether her memory loss was genuine.
Although the notoriety made Agatha Christie famous, she never recovered from the intentse press scrutiny, and the private anguish that surrounded the episode ensured that she made no reference to it in her memoirs.
Illustrated with 31 photographs, many of them from private albums, Jared Cade's rivetting book - on which a BBC television documentary has been based - provides all the answers, including startling accounts by the novelist's 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...
'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
In December 1926, Agatha Christie became front-page news when she vanished in bizarre circumstances from her home in Berkshire, England. Eleven days later the crime writer was found in a hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire, reading newspaper accounts of the search for herself and claiming to be the victim of amnesia. Up till now none of her biographers has come up with conclusive evidence as to what Agatha Christie did in the first twenty-four hours after she disappeared or whether her memory loss was genuine.
Although the notoriety made Agatha Christie famous, she never recovered from the intentse press scrutiny, and the private anguish that surrounded the episode ensured that she made no reference to it in her memoirs.
Illustrated with 31 photographs, many of them from private albums, Jared Cade's rivetting book - on which a BBC television documentary has been based - provides all the answers, including startling accounts by the novelist's 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...
'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
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