Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days (45 page)

Archie’s stepfather William Hemsley, a schoolmaster at Rugby School, after the First World War
(Rugby School Archive)

Archie in the early 1920s after he had left the Royal Flying Corps and started working in the City of London
(Judith and Graham Gardner)

Left to right: Archie, Major Belcher, Mrs Hyam and Agatha during the British Empire Tour
(Jared Cade)

Agatha and her daughter Rosalind, 1919
(Judith and Graham Gardner)

Nan and George Kon at Le Touquet Golf Course, France, during their engagement, 1925
(Judith and Graham Gardner)

Judith, aged ten, at Brancaster, Norfolk, 1926. Judith adored Archie and loved the games he played with her and Rosalind
(Judith and Graham Gardner)

Nan’s husband George, Archie and Nancy Neele on Sandwich Golf Course, Kent, 1926, photographed by Nan
(Judith and Graham Gardner)

Berkshire Constabulary missing persons poster, 9 December 1926, with a composite picture of Agatha dressed in the warm clothing and walking shoes she wore when she disappeared
(Berkshire Record Office)

Clairvoyant Horace Leaf who predicted Agatha was still alive
(Jared Cade)

The police dragging Sherbourne Pond for Agatha’s body
(British Library)

Left to right: Superintendent Goddard of the Berkshire Constabulary
(Wokingham Times and Berkshire Record Office)
; Deputy Chief Constable Kenward of the Surrey Constabulary directing the searches
(British Library)
; Superintendent McDowall of the West Riding Police
(West Yorkshire Police)

Daily News
, 11 December 1926, showing Agatha (centre) with composite pictures (left and right) depicting how she might have disguised herself to evade discovery
(British Library)