Where is Agatha, and what of Nan’s own romantic foibles? Meanwhile, people turn up dead at the hotel where Nan is staying. Left to wonder what Agatha is up to over the days of her disappearance, Nan simultaneously wanders the backroads of her own past while plotting to secure her position in Archie’s life for mysterious reasons. She rapidly learns that in spite of Archie’s vows, the upper crust will lie inflexibly to get what it wants, so she’d better make her own inroad. Nan is an Irish girl determined to rise from her poor roots and enter the high society world of the Christies for secret and ulterior motives. But how did the mistress in this situation feel? That’s the subject Nina de Gramont fictionalizes in The Christie Affair, which disappoints in spite of its strong narrative voice.ĭe Gramont centers her story on Nan O’Dea, a fictional counterpart for Nancy Neele, the also-married woman who was Archie’s mistress. Christie was eventually found eleven days later, hiding out in a hotel and using the surname of her husband’s mistress – and eventually granted Archie his divorce and married a second time. When she became the center of her own mystery – disappearing in December of 1926 after her husband Archie requested a divorce – she made worldwide headlines. Mystery writer Agatha Christie was a legend in her own time.
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