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Agatha Christie’s own mysterious disappearance
Perhaps she was off committing the perfect crime! Or maybe she just needed some R&R? Image generated by DALL-E.
Millions of people around the world have read the mysteries of beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Although fictional, their author and creator Agatha Christie (Chronogram guest #534) lived a life of intrigue as well, even going missing for 11 days in 1926 in still-unexplained circumstances that mirror her own whodunnit novels.
As the story goes, a then-36-year-old Christie bid her daughter goodnight and drove off into the night, not to be seen or heard from for a week and a half in the middle of winter in Berkshire. This set off a massive missing persons hunt involving one thousand policemen, airplanes, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes novels (and coincidentally Chronogram’s answer #535).
Police found Christie’s car abandoned by a slope, harbouring no evidence of an accident. Her body was not located nearby. Rumours abounded, including one that she had drowned herself in a nearby spring, one that her husband had her murdered, and another that claimed this was a publicity stunt for her latest novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Arthur Conan Doyle attempted to use a medium to contact her, with no success.
So where was she? Safe and sound in a hotel a train ride away, with absolutely no memory of how she ended up there, checked in under the name of her husband’s mistress, Theresa Neele. She never spoke of the 11 missing days, leaving police and others to put together their best guesses. They concluded that she had been in a car accident resulting in memory loss, boarded a train, and checked herself into the Harrogate hotel. Christie eventually made a full recovery, returned to writing, and left her husband in 1928. We may never know what happened, but perhaps that’s a question best left for Miss Maple and Mr. Poirot.
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Answers to last week's games
Monday, September 16 to Sunday, September 22.
Globle
Sep 16 Slovenia
Sep 17 Sudan
Sep 18 Kyrgyzstan
Sep 19 France
Sep 20 Portugal
Sep 21 Eritrea
Sep 22 Libya
Sep 23 Play now!
Globle: Capitals
Sep 16 Port of Spain
Sep 17 Nicosia
Sep 18 Beijing
Sep 19 Helsinki
Sep 20 Bridgetown
Sep 21 Amsterdam
Sep 22 Nuku`alofa
Sep 23 Play now!
Chronogram
#534 Agatha Christie
#535 Arthur Conan Doyle
#536 Aesop
#537 Humphrey Bogart
#538 Albert Camus
#539 Igor Stravinsky
#540 H. G. Wells
#541 Play now!
Fictogram
#301 Jake Barnes
#302 Willie Stark
#303 Jean Brodie
#304 Molly Bloom
#305 Lennie Small
#306 Tyler Durden
#307 Sebastian Flyte
#308 Play now!
Metazooa
#413 leech
#414 rat
#415 sea urchin
#416 fiddler crab
#417 yak
#418 cheetah
#419 mouse
#420 Play now!
Metaflora
#352 poppy
#353 fig
#354 anise
#355 gorse
#356 violet
#357 rye
#358 butternut squash
#359 Play now!
Linxicon
The following are the shortest paths from last week:
#217 administration -> assurance -> certain
#218 whatever -> ignore -> keep -> preserve
#219 carefully -> regularly -> monthly -> month
#220 money -> religion -> jesus -> holy
#221 tomorrow -> future -> predict -> tell -> describe
#222 nerve -> anger -> unemployment -> apply
#223 hope -> optimistic -> resourceful -> resource
#224 Play now!
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