The Lost Days of Agatha Christie, Carole Owens
The Lost Days of Agatha Christie, Carole Owens
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The Lost Days of Agatha Christie
A Psychological Mystery

Author: Carole Owens

Narrator: Wanda McCaddon

Unabridged: 3 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/09/2012


Synopsis

There was only one mystery Agatha Christie could not solve: her own. Dame Agatha Christie is best known for her detective novels and short stories. She is one of themost popular authors of all time, her novels having sold over four billion copies and having been translated into 103 languages. On the evening of December 8, 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared from her home in Sunningdale, Berkshire, leaving only a note for her secretary indicating that she was going to Yorkshire. Despite a massive manhunt, she was not found for eleven days. On December 19, 1926, Agatha was identified as a guest at a hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire, where she was registered as Mrs. Teresa Neele of Cape Town. Christie would give no account of her actions. Why did she disappear? Seven decades after her disappearance, theNew York Timescalled Agatha Christie Harrogatesmost famous nonresident.The mystery of her unexplained disappearance has never ceased to fascinate Christie fans and time has not diminished their desire to find a solution. In this psychological novel, Dr. Carole Owens, a practicing psychotherapist, takes on Agatha Christie as a patient to diagnose her problem and at long last solve the mystery of Christies lost days.

About Carole Owens

Carole Owens received her doctorate from Yeshiva University in 1987. She is a licensed independent clinical social worker and a licensed marriage and family therapist. She is a clinical member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, a certified member of the American Association of Clinical Mental Health Counselors, and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. Her doctoral dissertation, “Clinical v. Psychometric Judgement,” is a study of comparative methods of diagnosis. She is a contributor to The Stockbridge Story and the author of The Birkshire Cottages: A Vanishing Era and The Lost Days of Agatha Christie. She lives in Massachusetts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by TraceyL on February 04, 2020

Agatha Christie visits a fictional psychologist to try and find out what happened during the 11 days she went missing in 1926. She has no memory of the events. The doctor tries to get her to remember and a mystery unfolds. I liked that the entire book is just two people sitting in a room and talking.......more

Goodreads review by Mortisha on November 07, 2019

I really enjoyed this book because not only am I a huge fan of Agatha Christie but I loved how this book analyzed her psychological aspects of when she went missing and why. I don't want to go into the why so I don't spoil the book but it did shock me. I highly recommend this book to everyone especi......more

Goodreads review by Lizette on January 07, 2024

I love all of the Agatha Christie books that I have read (which to be honest aren’t that many) but I’m also fascinated by her own misters and even though this is a work of fiction it was an amazing take on her lost eleven days!!......more

Goodreads review by Linda on December 22, 2013

In December, 1926, Agatha Christie, England's most popular novelist of the era, disappeared for eleven days. When she was finally located in a Harrogate hotel, she could not remember who she was, and was unable to identify her husband. She did finally recover her memory, but was never able to recall......more

Goodreads review by Amy on November 22, 2021

This book was interesting. It was not as thrilling as I thought it would be. I thought it would dive much more into conspiracy theories. A few different variations of this have come in the years since her death. I like others a lot better, for example, one where she was kidnapped by someone to prove......more