Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days (44 page)

Christie, Agatha, ‘Mrs Agatha Christie: Her Own Story of Her Disappearance’,
Daily Mail,
16 February 1928

Herald and Express
(Torquay), ‘The Agatha Centenary’ (three souvenir supplements issued by the
Herald and Express
)
,
5, 6 and 8 September 1990

Hicks, Rosalind, ‘Agatha Christie, My Mother’,
The Times Saturday Review,
8 September 1990

Hiscock, Eric, ‘Personally Speaking’,
Bookseller,
19 April 1980

*Knox, Valerie, ‘Agatha Christie at 76 Is Still Plotting Murders’,
The Times,
1 December 1967

Ramsey, Gordon C., ‘A Teacher Meets Agatha Christie’,
Worcester Academy Bulletin,
Spring 1966

Snowdon, Lord, ‘The Unsinkable Agatha Christie’,
Toronto Star,
14 December 1974

*Symons, Julian, ‘Agatha Christie Talks to Julian Symons About the Gentle Art of Murder’,
Sunday Times,
15 October 1961

*Winn, Godfrey, ‘The Real Agatha Christie’,
Daily Mail,
12 September 1970

*Wyndham, Francis, ‘The Algebra of Agatha Christie’,
Sunday Times Weekly Review,
27 February 1966

Anon, ‘One Woman’s View of a Great English Scandal’,
San Francisco Chronicle,
14 August 1976

Anon, ‘The Queen’s:
The Claimant
’,
The Stage
, 18 September 1924

Anon, ‘Stories That Thrill’,
The Herald
(Melbourne), 20 May 1922

Anon, supplementary material from the
New York Times
News Service and the Associated Press, 22 September 1978. (Because of a newspaper strike, the
New York Times
was not printed at that time, but records were kept, including an article to the effect that a federal judge, Lawrence W. Pierce, had refused to block distribution of a movie and novel based on Agatha Christie’s unexplained disappearance in 1926. Two lawsuits had been brought by the late writer’s estate and by her only child, Rosalind Christie Hicks, and named in the suit as defendants were Ballantine Books, Casablanca Records and Filmworks, First Artist Corporation and Warner Brothers Inc. The film
Agatha,
starring Vanessa Redgrave and Dustin Hoffman, a fictional speculative account of the disappearance, was subsequently released in 1979.)

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Front cover: Agatha with her first husband Archie Christie after his investiture in 1919. (The Everett Collection/Rex Features)

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First published in Great Britain 1998 by Peter Owen Ltd.

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ISBN 978-1-908285-20-1

Agatha, right, with her childhood friend Dolly Freeman
(Judith and Graham Gardner)

Abney Hall, Cheshire, home of the Watts family. Agatha used this setting as the basis for many of her mysteries including
After the Funeral
and
They Do It With Mirrors (Judith and Graham Gardner)

The dining-room at Abney Hall where a young Nan and Agatha once played a trick on their elders.
(Judith and Graham Gardner)

Agatha’s sister Madge, 1902
(Judith and Graham Gardner)

Standing left to right in roller skates: Agatha, Nan Watts and Reggie Lucy’s sister Muriel with friends on the Princess Pier in Torquay, 1908
(Judith and Graham Gardner)

The steamer
Waikare
, photographed by Nan shortly before it sank, inspired Agatha’s short story ‘The Voice in the Dark’
(Judith and Graham Gardner)

Agatha’s sister Madge and Nan by the front lake of Abney Hall
(Judith and Graham Gardner)