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A mystery writer's mystery.

I'm Jason Horton.

I'm Rebecca Leab.

And this is Ghost Town. On December 4th, 1926, renowned novelist Agatha Christie kissed her daughter goodnight and sped away from her sprawling English home, carrying nothing but an attache case.

At just 36 years old, Christy was already a rising star, but for two weeks out of one year of her life,

she vanished without a trace, literally a winding, bizarre plot straight out of one of her own mystery novels.

Today on Ghost Town, the Queen of Mysteries herself becomes a mystery as we explore the

strange disappearance of Agatha Christie.

Born on September 15, 1890, and Devon, England, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was always

a precocious inquiring mind.

The youngest of three children, Christy taught herself to read

at just four years old, after her mother forbid her to learn until she was at least eight.

Why, I'm not exactly sure. Taring through authors like Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, and

Alexander Dumas, Christy began receiving her education at home, where she studied

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