![]() ![]() When I told people I was writing about Christie, their first questions were often about the 11 dramatic days in 1926 when she “disappeared” at the height of her writing career, causing a nationwide hunt for her corpse. She sidestepped a world that tried to define her. Despite her gigantic success, she retained her perspective as an outsider and onlooker. When an official form required her to put down what she did, the woman who is estimated to have sold 2bn copies always wrote “housewife”. ![]() If the women on the train had asked her profession, she’d have said she had none. It was a public image she carefully crafted to conceal her real self. But she deliberately played on the fact that she seemed so ordinary. ![]() Yes, she was easy to overlook, as is the case with nearly any woman past middle age. And then, in the railway carriage, there’s the watchful presence of Christie herself, unnoticed. ![]()
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