I saw this legend of Agatha Christie on “Unsolved Mysteries” on TV yesterday.
Agatha staged her own disappearance in 1926. She ran out of her mansion in the middle of the night. She abandoned her car at the side of the road. Her then-husband – Archie – was suspected of murder and causing Agatha’s disappearance. Then the police traced a name to a hotel. Agatha had used an alias of the surname Neil. I think it was irony, because Archie had a mistress with that same surname: whom he told Agatha about, because he wanted a divorce. Agatha must’ve had a real laugh at his expense when her disappearance was all over the newspapers and he was suspected of foul play.
Of course Agatha was found alive and well. Archie and herself got the divorce and both re-married.
What a story! And it is true! Sneaky Agatha. She certainly had her revenge on Archie.