NOVELIST MISSING

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 63, 8 December 1926, Page 11

NOVELIST MISSING

STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE OF AGATHA CHRISTIE

ABANDONED MOTOR-CAR ,FOUND

. London, December 6.

Mystery attends the disappearance of Mrs. Agatha- Christie, the well-known novelist, wife of Colonel Christie. She spent the evening with her busband, then packed an attache case, and suddenly departed, notifying the secretary that'she would not return that night. Next morning a boy found her motor-car, containing an attache case, two pairs of shoes, and some wearing apparel abandoned, stuck in a hedge on the brink of a cliff at Newlands Corner, a beauty spot near Guildford. Judged by appearances the car skidded after running down hill without brakes. The police scoured the country and dragged ponds fruitlessly. The husband told the police that his wife recently suffered a nervous breakdown, necessitating her going on a holiday to France. . . , Later. There is no further trace of Mrs. Christie. Her husband states that he was unaware that his wife intended to leave home, and he left home for the week-end before she started.—Sydney “Sun” Cable. BELIEVED TO BE CASE OF LOST MEMORY London, December 6. Mrs. Agatha Christie, the well-known writer of detective serials, is herself the heroine of a countryside mystery. She is 35, the pretty popular wife of Colonel Archibald Christie, t in Australia in connection with the Empire Exhibition Mrs. Christie left her home in Berkshire in a motor-car on Friday night, and a gipsy bov found the deserted car in the morning overhanging a chalkpit in a. lonely part of the Surrey Downs. Evidently the car had been allowed to run down a steep declivity, and it is presumed that the driver wandered over the dreary downlands nearby. The police and sixty searchers dragged the lakes and ponds in the vicinity, including the mysterious “Silent Pool,’" which has sinister memories in local legend, and figured in one of the missing writer’s stones. For three da vs and nights the search has been fruitless, though doas are employed. It is believed that the disappearance is a case of lost memory.