Agatha Christie’s 1926 Disappearance

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/books/agatha-christie-vanished-11-days-1926.html

by DoreenMichele • 7 years ago

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ggm2• 7 years ago

Love the story, but absent significant new information, this is not just a rehash from "last year" but pretty much a rehash from 1926.

I don't think I've read a Christie biography which didn't rehearse the main points. This is not news, although it is jolly interesting.

It could simply be the wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie#Disappearance

labster• 7 years ago

Disappointing rehashes of Christie is what we get these days. See Kenneth Branagh's recent Poirot attempt.

If we're giving out links to harrowing yet anticlimactic tales on Wikipedia, may I suggest https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter_rabbit_incident

craz8• 7 years ago

I kind of liked the Branagh movie but it suffered from 2 things:

1: I noticed how good the cinematography was - I was not immersed enough to not see how good they were at setting the scene 2: David Suchet nailed Poirot so well it’s impossible for anyone else to even try

I don’t know if anyone else has owned a character as well as Suchet has done Poirot, but I’d love to hear arguments for others!

matt-attack• 7 years ago

FWIW I had never heard of this saga. I found it quite an enjoyable read.

ggm2• 7 years ago

Yes. It's well told and fascinating. It's quite Kardashian.

julianz• 7 years ago

Pretty horrible typo from the NY Times there. "Tressa" should be "Teresa".

Ndymium• 7 years ago

Reminds me of Grasscut's song A Mysterious Disappearance, I wonder if it's a reference to this case?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjYHL_xUV5Y

EDIT: From the source itself, yes it is: https://www.grasscutmusic.com/unearth#!

jrmg• 7 years ago

Interesting that the newspapers of the time referred to her as an ‘American writer’. She’d lived all her life in England - though her father was American.

fredoralive• 7 years ago

Seeing is this is from an American paper, they were probably trying to find a "local" connection, I skimmed The Times archive (the British one) and they don't describe her as American.

DigitalTerminal• 7 years ago

None of this would be possible today, as our every move is tracked, and documented by our technological overlords.

jtwigg• 7 years ago

The conspirators just did a podcast regarding this http://www.theconspiratorspodcast.com/2019/06/10/ep-103-the-...

Pulletwee12549• 7 years ago

Somewhere, Agatha Christie is smiling because we're all still puzzling over this one last mystery.

Agatha Christie’s 1926 Disappearance

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