![]() Durante i loro quarantasei anni di matrimonio, la scrittrice accompagn pi volte il marito nelle spedizioni archeologiche e fu una sua valida collaboratrice. Il loro incontro risale al 1928, quando la famosa giallista part da sola per Baghdad con l’Orient Express. ![]() Michael Apted’s 1979 film Agatha, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Dustin Hoffman, is a fictional account of those 11 days. Agatha Christie spos in seconde nozze l’archeologo Max Mallowan. She never recovered her memory from that time. Furthermore and through no fault of the actor the Max Mallowan embodied by Jonah Hauer-King (late of World on Fire) bears little resemblance to the real man.Max was 14 years Agatha’s. Colonel Christie was suspected of murdering her and only when a member of the hotel band recognised her and reported it was Agatha considered safe. Suffering from amnesia, Christie had signed herself into the Harrogate Hydropathic Hotel, where she registered as Teresa Neele. The result was an intriguing 11-day disappearance. She became a household name with the publication of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd but she lost her mother that year and her husband revealed he was in love with his golfing partner, Nancy Neele. Her husband was suspected of murdering herġ926 saw both highlights and heartache for Christie. She stayed married to the archaelogist Sir Max Mallowan until she died in 1976. Early in the First World War Christie worked with the VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) and later in the dispensary of the local hospital, where she completed the examination of the Society of Apothecaries and acquired an interest in and knowledge of poisons.
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