Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days (47 page)

Nan’s niece Eleanor Watts, later Lady Campbell-Orde, who visited Agatha at Abney Hall on 16 December 1926 after the writer was found
(Judith and Graham Gardner)

On 24 January 1927 the
Daily Express
was just one of the many newspapers that reported Agatha’s departure to the Canary Islands, five weeks after her disappearance
(British Library)

Left to right, Agatha’s nephew Jack with his father Jimmy, Agatha’s brother-in-law, and Jimmy and Nan’s father, James II
(Judith and Graham Gardner)

On 17 September 1930 the
Daily Mirror
was one of several newspapers to report Agatha’s marriage to Max Mallowan
(British Library)

The Daily Film Renter
, 27 April 1931. A trade paper advertisement for the film
Alibi
, based on Agatha’s novel
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
, starring Austin Trevor as Hercule Poirot
(Jared Cade)

The Daily Film Renter
, 18 August 1931, showing scenes from the film
Black Coffee
which was based on Agatha’s original play and once again featured Austin Trevor as Hercule Poirot
(Jared Cade)

An inscription from Agatha to Nan in
Dumb Witness
: ‘To my not so dumb friend Nan “the smelly kipper” from her old friend Starry Eyes (?)’
(Judith and Graham Gardner)

Agatha’s 33-acre property Greenway, near Churston Ferrers in Devon, was the setting for the Hercule Poirot mysteries
Five Little Pigs
and
Dead Man’s Folly (Judith and Graham Gardner)

Archaeologist Guilford Bell who helped Agatha renovate Greenway; the writer regarded him ‘almost like a son’
(Judith and Graham Gardner)

Agatha’s daughter Rosalind resembled her father Archie, late 1930s
(Judith and Graham Gardner)

An inscription from Agatha to Nan in
Absent in the Spring
: ‘To my dear Mrs Kon from M.W. in memory of the SS Marama Honolulu’
(Judith and Graham Gardner)