Author Marie Benedict has selected Agatha Christie as
the latest historic woman to have her story told in The Mystery of Mrs.
Christie, coming out in January 2021.
Archibald Christie just had to have Agatha Miller in
his life even though she was engaged to someone else. Once married, his
feelings for her seemed to slowly diminish until she seemed more of a nuisance
to him than someone he loved and coveted. They had married in 1914, had their only
child Rosalind in 1919, and the marriage just faded away as he pursued other
women.
Although she never discussed it, Agatha Christie went
missing in 1926, and her husband was put off because she apparently interrupted
a weekend with his lover when the police fetched him because his wife was
missing. Her empty wrecked car caused a manhunt to find the mystery writer. She
would turn up 11 days later claiming loss of memory when she actually had been creating
her best mystery ever.
Marie Benedict has once again beautifully created the
story of a famous woman as she did with Mrs. Einstein and Mrs. Churchill. A
lawyer who graduated from Boston University Law School, Benedict focused on History
and Art History at Boston College as an undergraduate. I wonder who she will
next create as she pursues the hidden stories of famous women. Marie Benedict’s subjects don’t always interest me, but her writing draws
me in each time.
My review will be posted on Goodreads starting November
8, 2020.
I’d like to thank Sourcebooks
Landmark and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in return for an objective
review.
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