April 9, 2021
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict
In December 1926, mystery writer Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days without any explanation. She had discovered that her husband Archie was having an affair with a woman named Nancy Neele and wanted a divorce. Christie was eventually located at a hotel/spa in Harrogate, Yorkshire, and she never disclosed where she had been for the previous ten days.
Agatha's true life mystery was a huge news story. She never referred to her disappearance and doctors who examined her determined that she was suffering from memory loss. No one knows where she was for the ten days she was missing. She and Archie subsequently divorced, and both remarried.
This was an okay fictional biography of Christie. Marie Benedict writes historical fiction about women - previous books have focused on Albert Einstein's wife and Andrew Carnegie's maid, among others. She does stick to historical facts (which other novels about Christie have taken great liberties with), but it wasn't as good as Benedict's earlier books.
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