NOVELIST MISSING.
LETTER TO A FRIEND. (Received Wednesday, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, Tuesday, The Daily News says that the police bare taken possession of a letter which Mrs! Christie wrote to a friend, postmarked the day after her disappearance, the contents of which have not been disclosed. search has been abandoned. (Mrs Agatha. Christie, the wellknown writer of detective serials, is herself the heroine of a countryside mystery. She is 35, the pretty, popular wife of Colonial Archibald Christie, recently in Australia in connection with the Empire Exhibition. Mrs Christie left her home in Berkshire in a motor-ear. on Friday night, and a gipsy 'boy found the deserted car in tire moTning 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 downloads nearby. The police and sixty searchers dragged the lakes and ponds in the vicinity, including the mysterious “Silent Pool” which lias sinister memories in local legend, and figured in one of the missing writer’s stories. For three days and nights the search lias been fruitless, though dogs were employed. Jt is‘ believed that the disappearance is a case of lost memory.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 8 December 1926, Page 5
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