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Post by annaj26 on Jun 18, 2019 9:27:33 GMT -5
This space (Famous Writers) is for all members and staff to start threads about famous writers and add information about them or things you like or dislike about them.
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Post by annaj26 on Jun 18, 2019 9:40:44 GMT -5
I found this while browsing this morning. Since I read a lot of Agatha Christie mysteries student book club at school when I was a kid, I found it interesting enough to share. Please start a new thread each time yhou bring in a different writer. ___________________________________________________________________________________ When the World’s Most Famous Mystery Writer Vanished On a cold December night in 1926, Agatha Christie went out in her beloved Morris Cowley roadster and didn’t return home for 11 days. Here’s how her disappearance played out. By Tina Jordan June 11, 2019 It was like a plot from one of her own novels: On the evening of Dec. 4, Agatha Christie, carrying nothing but an attaché case, kissed her daughter good night and sped away from the home in England that she shared with her husband, Col. Archibald Christie. (He was having an affair with a younger woman; the public did not know this, but his wife definitely did.) No one knew where Christie was for almost two weeks. Dec. 6, 1926 Christie was 36 at the time and had already published several detective novels, including “The Secret Adversary” and “The Murder on the Links.” Her disappearance merited banner headlines the world over, making the front page of The Times on Dec. 6. “The novelist’s car was found abandoned near Guildford on the edge of a chalk pit, the front wheels actually overhanging the edge,” the paper reported. “The car evidently had run away, and only a thick hedge-growth prevented it from plunging into the pit.” static01.nyt.com/images/2019/04/02/books/00Christie5/00Christie5-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp
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Post by annaj26 on Jun 18, 2019 9:48:24 GMT -5
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Post by annaj26 on Jun 18, 2019 9:51:12 GMT -5
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