Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secretsβa town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs. Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note says βI canβt go on,β but Miss Marple questions the
Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days
β Scribed by Cade, Jared
- Book ID
- 108076210
- Publisher
- eBook Versions
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781908285201
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Now under option to a Hollywood film company
In 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 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...
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Over six Tuesday evenings a group gathers at Miss Marple's house to ponder unsolved crimes. The company is inclined to forget their elderly hostess as they become mesmerized by the sinister tales they tell one another. But it is always Miss Marple's quiet genius that names the criminal or the means
This collection gathers together every short story featuring one of Agatha Christieβs most famous creations: Miss Marple. Described by her friend Dolly Bantry as βthe typical old maid of fiction,β Miss Marple has lived almost her entire life in the sleepy hamlet of St. Mary Mead. Yet, by observing v
Itβs seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing an evening dress and heavy makeup, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains ar
* The first Miss Marple mystery, one which tests all her powers of observation and deduction.* βAnyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe,β declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, βwould be doing the world at large a favor!β It was a careless remark for a man of
For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a womanβs throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away. But who, apart from Mi