The Lady Vanishes

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

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🗓️ 12 December 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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When Agatha Christie disappeared in 1926, nobody could find her. Books mentioned in order of appearance —The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie —The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie —The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie —An Autobiography by Agatha Christie —The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie —Unnatural Death by Dorothy L Sayers —Agatha Christie: A Biography by Janet Morgan —Agatha by Kathleen Tynan —Agatha Christie and the Missing Eleven Days by Jared Code —Agatha Christie: The Finished Portrait by Andrew Norman —A Talent for Murder by Andrew Wilson —The Big Four by Agatha Christie —The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie —The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie —The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie —Giant's Bread by Mary Westmacott Sources: —The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards —The Complete Christie: An Agatha Christie Encyclopaedia by Matthew Bunson —The British Newspaper Archive Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/theladyvanishestranscript. NB: Links to Blackwell’s are affiliate links, meaning that the podcast receives a small commission when you purchase a book there (the price remains the same for you). Blackwell’s is a UK independent bookselling chain that ships internationally at no extra charge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	New from DurX, 7 different vibrations you'll want to put on repeat.
0:15.0	Now available at boots and at duerX.co. UK. On the 3rd of December, 1926, Agatha Christie left her home in the Southern English
0:30.6	County of Berkshire just after 930 in the evening.
0:34.2	She drove away in her Morris-Carely car taking a small suitcase
0:38.8	and a fur coat with her.
0:40.2	Her secretary, Carlo Fisher, who also helped to look after Agatha's then seven-year-old daughter
0:48.4	Rosalind, later related that the author had said nothing about where she was going.
0:55.2	The following morning, the car was found 15 miles away at Newlands Corner near Guildford in Surrey,
1:01.9	on the edge of a lake called Silent Pool.
1:05.2	The headlights were still on and her luggage was inside, but the driver was nowhere to be seen. The police quickly identified the vehicle
1:18.0	and brought Fisher and Agatha's husband Archie to the scene
1:21.0	to see if they could shed any light on what had happened.
1:24.4	By the time they got there, the car was already surrounded by members of the public.
1:29.7	Their curiosity peaked by the mystery of the mystery writer's disappearance.
1:34.0	The word was out.
1:40.0	The lady had vanished.
1:45.0	Welcome to She Dunnet.
1:49.0	I'm Caroline Crampton. At the end of 1926 Agatha Christie was already a well-known author, although not yet the worldwide bestseller she became later in her career.
2:09.0	Her Kule Poiroirot had made his debut in her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Stiles, in 1920,
2:15.0	and she had also introduced the recurring sloothing pair Tommy and Tupence
2:19.0	in 1922's The Secret Adversary. to use the secret adversary. Four more books had followed. The most recent at the time of her
2:28.1	disappearance being the murder of Roger Acroyd, published in June 1926. This last proved to be something of a breakthrough for her,
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