Join us for a conversation with Jared Cade to discuss his book, Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days.
About Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days.
In December 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared in bizarre circumstances from her home in Berkshire, England. The discovery of the crime writer’s abandoned car led to the biggest manhunt in British history for a missing person. Eleven days later she was found over two hundred miles away in a northern spa town, claiming to be the victim of amnesia. Up till the publication of this book in 1998 none of her biographers had come up with conclusive evidence as to what she did during the first twenty-four hours after she disappeared or whether her memory loss was genuine. Although the newspaper headlines made Agatha Christie famous, the private anguish that surrounded the episode ensured she made no reference to it in her memoirs.
Jared’s Cade’s number one bestselling biography – on which a BBC television documentary has been based – provides the answers to the mystery, including Agatha Christie’s long forgotten explanation of the notorious episode, along with startling accounts by her relatives that reveal for the first time why she staged the disappearance with the help of a co-conspirator and how it all went terribly wrong. His sympathetic investigation reveals the incidents that shaped her character and how the fall-out from the disappearance affected the rest of her life.
Jared Cade is the multi award-winning creator of the Lyle Revel and Hermione Bradbury cosy mystery series. His books demonstrate a fondness for amateur sleuths, traditional mysteries, locked-room murders, and impossible crimes set against a predominantly British background. Some of his stories have the added allure of exotic locations abroad.He is a former tour guide for a bespoke luxury travel company, escorting parties around Agatha Christie’s former home Greenway, in Devon, which is open to the public courtesy of the National Trust. During an appearance on the British television quiz The $64,000 Question, he won the top prize on his specialist subject of Agatha Christie’s novels.Jared Cade is also the Amazon number one bestselling author of Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days. His latest book Secrets from the Agatha Christie Archives was longlisted for the ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Award. Learn more here
This is part of a series of events commemorating the 100th anniversary of Agatha Christie’s disappearance.
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