Agatha Christie hopped into her car and drove off, only to have her car discovered abandoned with her clothing and driver's license inside. On December 3, 1926, Agatha Christie was told by her husband that he was leaving her for another woman, a Nancy Neele. The question is, why? Why destroy another woman’s marriage, why hatch a plot years in the making, and why murder? How was Nan O’Dea so intricately tied to those eleven mysterious days that Agatha Christie went missing? London, 1925: In a world of townhomes and tennis matches, socialites and shooting parties, Miss Nan O’Dea became Archie Christie’s mistress, luring him away from his devoted and well-known wife, Agatha Christie. The greatest mystery wasn’t Agatha Christie’s disappearance in those eleven infamous days, it’s what she discovered.
In retrospect, it’s frightening, but I daresay in the moment it feels sweet. It takes over your body so completely, it’s like a divine force, grabbing hold of your will, your limbs, your psyche. It’s a particular feeling, the urge to murder. “A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder-and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century.
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