Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days (46 page)

Daily Mirror
, 10 December 1926, showing a motor-tractor caterpillar combing the dales for Agatha, a large body of men congregating at Newlands Corner prior to the beginning of the latest search, and Archie driving up to London the previous day with Rosalind beside him; Charlotte and Mary Fisher and Peter the dog are in the back of the car
(British Library)

Back page of the
Daily Express
, 13 December 1926: pictures showing the public searching for Agatha (top left) on foot, bicycle, motor cycle and car, during the ‘Great Sunday Hunt’; her husband Archie (middle right) did not join the thousands of searchers
(British Library)

Front page of the
Daily Sketch
, 15 December 1926, after Agatha was found; pictures on the left show Agatha and Rosalind; on the right, Archie was no longer suspected of killing her; diving operations for her body ceased, as did speculations regarding a hut in Clandon Wood
(British Library)

Late-night
Daily News
reporter Sidney Campion who rushed to Harrogate on 13 December 1926 after learning that a woman resembling Agatha was staying in one of the hotels
(Margery Campion)

Rosie Asher, the chambermaid, who suspected the true identity of ‘Mrs Neele’
(Patsy Robinson)

Agatha photographed by the
Daily Mail
leaving the Harrogate Hydro on 15 December 1926; this was the first picture taken of her after she was found alive
(British Library)

Front page of the
Daily Mirror
, 16 December 1926. Main picture shows Agatha with her sister Madge Watts in front; right shows Agatha entering her sister’s car, sentries guarding the train at Leeds in which Agatha travelled to Manchester instead of continuing to King’s Cross, London, where crowds waited in vain
(British Library)

A smiling Agatha photographed during her journey to Abney Hall after her discovery; reproduced in the London
Evening News
, 16 December 1926
(British Library)

The Bulletin and Scots Pictorial
, 16 December 1926. The newspaper’s cartoonist, suspecting Agatha had disappeared in order to publicize her career, suggested she write a book about her adventures called ‘My Pretty Dance’.
(British Library)

Albert Whiteley of the Harry Codd Dance Band who observed ‘Mrs Neele’ in the Harrogate Hydro ballroom
(Christine Wilde)

The flyleaf of
Partners in Crime
personally inscribed by Agatha to Nan: ‘To sweet Nan of Old Chelsea from Agatha’
(Judith and Graham Gardner)

Nan outside the front door of 78 Chelsea Park Gardens in London
(Judith and Graham Gardner)