Eleven days: the fascinating true account of Agatha Christie's mysterious disappearance

"In December of 1926, Agatha Christie, the world's most famous mystery author, vanished. Eleven days later, after frenzied media speculation, she was discovered alive and well. Claiming to have lost her memory, she gave one disingenuous newspaper interview in 1928, but otherwise refused to speak publicly about her disappearance. A century on, there are questions that have never been answered. The book penetrates the blank space in Christie's long and brilliant life, which leaves her ever more emblematic of the genre that she defines. Eleven Days is an examination of a myth, of a Christie mystery that has remained tantalizingly unsolved. In a new approach, Laura Thompson undertakes a re-enactment of Christie's movements: from the moment of driving away from her marital home, abandoning her car some fifteen miles away, to when she arrived the following night at a hotel in the north of England. Based on Thompson's conversations with people close to Christie--notably with Christie's only child, her daughter Rosalind--Eleven Days will examine what lay behind this event, including some entirely new information about Christie's first marriage.