12/03/1926 AD disappeared
Agatha quarrels with husband Archie after announced his plan to spend the weekend with friends, unaccompanied by his wife. Late that evening, Christie disappears from their home in Sunningdale.
The following morning, her car, a Morris Cowley, is discovered at Newlands Corner, parked above a chalk quarry with an expired driving license and clothes inside.
In August 1926, Archie had asked Agatha for a divorce after having fallen in love with Nancy Neele.
The disappearance quickly became headline news story, as the press sought to satisfy their readers' "hunger for sensation, disaster, and scandal".
Home Secretary William Joynson-Hicks pressured police, and a newspaper offered a £100 reward (approximately equivalent to £6,000 in 2021). More than a thousand police officers, 15,000 volunteers, and several airplanes searched the rural landscape.
Despite the extensive manhunt, she was not found for another 10 days. On 14 December 1926, she was located at the Swan Hydropathic Hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire, 184 miles (296 km) north of her home in Sunningdale, registered as Mrs Tressa[d] Neele (the surname of her husband's lover) from "Capetown [sic] S.A." (South Africa).
The next day, Christie left for her sister's residence at Abney Hall, Cheadle, where she was sequestered "in guarded hall, gates locked, telephone cut off, and callers turned away".
Christie's autobiography makes no reference to the disappearance. Two doctors diagnosed her with "an unquestionable genuine loss of memory", yet opinion remains divided over the reason for her disappearance.
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Agatha Christie (Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, Lady Mallowan, DBE, Mary Westmacott) English writer known for...
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