An instant New York Times and USA Today best seller!
"A deft, fascinating page-turner replete with richly drawn characters
and plot twists that would stump Hercule Poirot." (Kate Quinn, New York
Times best-selling author of The Alice Network, The Huntress, and
The Rose Code)
The New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of The Only
Woman in the Room returns with a thrilling reconstruction of one of the
most notorious events in literary history: Agatha Christie's mysterious
11-day disappearance in 1926.
In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. Investigators find her
empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire
tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the car - strange for a frigid
night. Her World War I veteran husband and her daughter have no
knowledge of her whereabouts, and England unleashes an unprecedented
manhunt to find the up-and-coming mystery author. Eleven days later, she
reappears, just as mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming amnesia and
providing no explanations for her time away.
The puzzle of those missing 11 days has persisted. With her trademark
historical fiction exploration into the shadows of the past, acclaimed
author Marie Benedict brings us into the world of Agatha Christie,
imagining why such a brilliant woman would find herself at the center of
such murky historical mysteries.
What is real, and what is mystery? What role did her unfaithful husband
play, and what was he not telling investigators?
Agatha Christie novels have withstood the test of time, due in no small
part to Christie's masterful storytelling and clever mind that may never
be matched, but Agatha Christie's untold history offers perhaps her
greatest mystery of all.
