Agatha Christie: The Finished Portrait

191pp. 8vo. B&W illustrations in text. Indexed. 1st ed. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket (tiny rub at base of spine). When Agatha Christie, the so-called Queen of Crime, disappeared from her home in Sunningdale in Berkshire for eleven days in December 1926, the whole nation held its collective breath. The next day, when her car was found abandoned 14 miles away at Newlands Corner in Surrey, a nationwide hunt followed. From a painstaking reconstruction of her movements and behaviours, Dr Norman sheds new light on what, in many ways, has remained a baffling and bizarre mystery surrounding the most successful crime writer of all time.