A MYSTERY.
NOVELIST DISAPPEARS. A FUTILE POLICE SEARCH. Press Association-Electric Telegraph-Copyright. (Received Tuesday, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Monday. Mystery attends the disappearance of Mrs Agatha Christie, a well known novelist, and wife of Colonel Christie. She spent the evening with her husband. She then packed an attache ca9e and suddenly departed} notifying her secretary that she would not return that night. Next morning a boy found her motor car, containing the attache ease and two pairs of shoes’ and some wearing apparel, abandoned, and her stick in a hedge on the brink of a cliff at Newland’s Corner,- a beauty spot near Guildford. The appearances of the car show that it skidded after running downhill brakeless. The police scoured the country and dragged the ponds fruitlessly. The husband told the police that his wife recently suffered a nervous breakdown, necessitating her.going on a holiday to France. —Sun.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 December 1926, Page 5
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146A MYSTERY. Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 December 1926, Page 5
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