When she 26 years old, Agatha Christie left home one foggy* night and disappeared.
The next morning her car was found halfway* down a grassy* bank with its hood stuck in the bushes.
The police found her fur coat in the car, but there was no sing of her.
What they suspected was attempted suicide because her marriage was seriously troubled at the time.
Despite the extensive police search of the whole area, there were no clues to her whereabouts*.
But then, eleven days after her disappearance, the head waiter at a hotel in North Yorkshire noticed that one of the female guests looked similar to the newspaper photos of the missing novelist.
He rang the police, and her husband rushed to see her.
To his surprise, however, Agatha acted like a completely different person and didn’t seem to recognize her husband.
He thought she had suffered a memory loss due to stress.
In fact it was a distressful incident for Agatha, and was followed by their divorce.
But ironically the incident made her a best-selling novelist.
Her next novel, 『The Big Four』, sold 9,000 copies, more than twice as many as any of her previous books.
