In 1926, on the 3rd of December, Agatha Christie went missing. For 11 days, the world-renowned mystery author had just offered the world their best mystery yet – one that is still unsolved to this very day. Around 9:30 on the night she went missing, she tucked her daughter into bed and drove off in her Morris Cowley that would be found not too long after, abandoned with no sign of there being any kind of accident (Mason).
On the 14th of December, after triggering a massive manhunt, Agatha Christie was finally found at the Hydropathic Hotel, now known as the Old Swan Hotel, in Harrogate. She had been dropped off by a taxi the previous Saturday morning, carrying only a single small suitcase (“Disappearance”).
Christie never spoke of these days with anyone, never revealing what truly induced her 11-day disappearance (“Christie’s Life”). Her husband at the time, Archie Christie, claimed that it was the result of a fugue state, a form of temporary amnesia, for she did not recognize him or remember who she was at the time of her discovery (Mason).
While some believe that Agatha Christie’s 11-day mysterious disappearance was staged as a result of Christie’s spite towards her husband, it is probable that she was simply the victim of a fugue state induced by the stress of family complications, as demonstrated by her strange actions during and after her disappearance.