She divorced him soon afterwards, but despite living another 50 years and publishing an autobiography, she refused to answer too many questions about her vanishing act, claiming memory loss.
Eventually she was found in a hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire, registered in the name of her husband’s 26 year-old mistress. She was married, with a seven year old daughter, but then went missing for 11 days despite a massive police manhunt and international news coverage. “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” was rather innovative and is still quite often voted as the best-ever whodunit. In December 1926, when aged 36 and still a bit of a rising star, she had just published her sixth murder mystery, and her third featuring the Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot. Sadly we don’t have a single volume of hers in the library, but I did enjoy most of her 66 novels when I was a teenager.
Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is still the world’s best-selling novelist of all time, with sales in excess of two billion, even aside from having also written the world’s longest running play ever to be staged anywhere.
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