One newspaper offered a reward roughly equivalent to $A9,500.īut then Archibald dropped a bombshell: Perhaps his wife was hiding in plain sight.
She had spent the day quarrelling with her husband, Colonel Archibald Christie, who had recently announced that he was in love with a younger woman and would soon be leaving his family behind.įor the next 11 days, the most famous woman in the world was gone, sparking a nationwide manhunt that involved 1,000 police officers, 15,000 volunteers, bloodhounds and aeroplanes.įellow detective writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle engaged the services of a psychic to try to track down his missing colleague. Late on the evening of December 3, 1926, Agatha Christie walked up the stairs of her palatial English mansion, kissed her seven-year-old daughter goodnight, got in her car and drove away in the dark. It could have been the plot from one of her bestselling mystery novels.
