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    Jan 26, 2022 5 minutes
    EDITED by JULIET RIEDEN

    The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont, Mantle

    Much has been written, dramatised and supposed about the infamous 11-day disappearance of crime novelist Agatha Christie in December 1926. What really happened we can never know, which is no doubt why it’s so delicious to wonder. In The Christie Affair Nina de Gramont goes even further, conjuring a quite brilliant backstory complete with murder, passion and tragedy that could easily be a plot from one of Agatha’s crime thrillers. It’s told by Nan O’Dea, the fictional mistress of Agatha’s husband, Archie Christie. Nan wanted to be a writer and here shows she’s pretty good at it!

    So, how much of this story is fact and how much fiction? “The bare bones are as reported – Agatha Christie’s husband asked for a divorce so

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