The strange disappearance of Mrs Agatha Christie (2022)

If you never watched the Hercule Poirot series with David Suchet, I highly recommend it. He filmed all the stories which spanned 25 years. He’s also got a good book on it and what it was like to be Poirot for that long.

The 'fugue state' seems very unlikely to me. I'd guess that Agatha had some plot against her husband, and then used that as an excuse when things didn't go as planned.

What the plot was though, I have no idea. It looks like she was framing him for her murder, but that would involve her going missing permanently. Which is both a big sacrifice and very hard to pull off when you are Agatha Christie.

Huh, recently watched Lucy Worsley's series on Agatha Christie

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0d9c9v5/agatha-chris...

> The written answer from the Home Secretary was that ‘No members of the Metropolitan Police were specially detailed for the purpose, and no cost was incurred by the Metropolitan Police …’

Then

> Agatha’s husband, Archie Christie, responded to enquiries about his wife’s state of mind by explaining that she was suffering from a nervous disorder and memory loss. The police approached him to request a contribution towards police costs, but he refused saying it was ‘entirely a police matter’.

So which is it?

Quite the story! I never heard about this before, and I’m a huge fan (admittedly that’s fan of the books though, rather than the author herself). The story/novel mentioned in the article (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd) is famous in literary circles for $reasons - if you haven’t read it and you enjoy reading that sort of book, you’re missing out!

(It does look like she staged a murder scene from her books intending to frame her husband then came to her senses, doesn’t it?)