Agatha Christie disappears
December 4, 1926
The thirty-six-year-old mystery writer vanished from her Berkshire home, leaving her car near a chalk pit. For eleven days, fifteen thousand volunteers searched the countryside while the press speculated she had been murdered. She was found at a spa hotel in Yorkshire under the name of her husband's mistress. She never explained.
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