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1 D

2 B

3 D 

4 C

The mystery began on the eyening of Friday 3 Dccember 1926 at Styies, the crime writer'e heme in e eell town in Berkshire, in south England. At the tims, Christic was already an salablished wrter end her mt (t novel, The Murder of Roger Ackrayd, was selling well. Despite this, she wes knewe te ke in a deprsee n since her mother had recently died(1) and although she still lived with her husband, Archie Clristis, she knew tl Re was in love with another woman called Nancy Stecic.

3. On the day she disappeared, Christic lct without waming driving away from her houss at Araund 949pm The next morning her abandoned car was found several miles away, near the fown of Guildferd There Wae immediate speculation in the press about what had happened to her. Some peopis thought she had eommilied suicide while others suggested she had been murdered, lost her memory, or simply Fresied a pullicity ent Fint far from the place where her car was found was a lake called Silent Pool. Christic had used ths panl in ens R heF books(2); one of her characters had drowned there. The police scarched the pool bul her bady wien't fund They also organized 15.000 volunteers to search the surrounding countryside. At last, Agatha Christic was discovered living in a hotel in the northern town of Harmgats She had signed in under the name of Teresa Necle significantly using the surname of the woman her hushaid war in love Wth Although she appeared to have read the newspapers daily, she had cicarly ignored all the media fuse ahout her disappearance and when the police and Archic arrived to callect her, she claimed she didn't recognize her ewn husband and appeared not to be able to remember anything about her life.(3)

4. A recent theory suggests that Christic was suffering from a state of mind called "fugue which is a condition brought on by trauma or depression that causes a termporary memory loss: iHoweyer, theae theories Feuld go on forever and perhaps the truth is that she simply wanted to get away from an unfaithful husband(4). The facthat she and Archie were divorced two years later and Christic remarried an archacologist calied Mas MaliRwan supports this theory too. But whatever your opinion, the story of Agatha Christic's disappsarance makse a BEest mystery.