Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days (49 page)

The brilliant acting talents of Vanessa Redgrave and Dustin Hoffman were not sufficient to prevent
Agatha
bombing at the box office; the fictional elements of the film, which revolved around the disappearance, enraged the writer’s surviving family
(Jared Cade)

Col. Archie Christie (Timothy Dalton) identifies Mrs Neele as Agatha Christie (Vanessa Redgrave) in
Agatha
which was shot on location at the Harrogate Hydro
(Jared Cade)

Agatha in conversation towards the end of her life
(Judith and Graham Gardner)

Lady Mallowan (Barbara Parker) after Max’s death, c.1988
(British School of Archaeology and British Library)

Judith Gardner with some of the many personally inscribed detective novels and Mary Westmacott romances that her mother Nan Watts received from Agatha Christie
(Judith and Graham Gardner)