![]() ![]() ![]() The car is found abandoned the next morning at Newlands Corner near Guildford but there is no trace of its driver. Few options seem palatable, and then the inevitable desperation comes.Īs in real life, Wilson’s Christie kisses her seven-year-old daughter, Rosalind, goodbye on the evening of December 3 rd and then disappears from her Berkshire home in a Morris Cowley. ![]() These stressors have left her with a hopeless case of writer’s block even as her publisher anticipates the delivery of her next novel. Already in despair over the recent death of her mother, she is further conflicted by the knowledge that her husband, Archibald (“Archie”), has been having an affair with a younger woman and wants a divorce. An ingenious concept, indeed-and one ripe for the telling, given that Christie never spoke of the incident herself and also neglected to include it in her autobiography.Īs the story opens, Christie-a rising star in the literary world thanks to the success of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd-is suffering a personal crisis that threatens her professional livelihood. Today, I have the pleasure of reviewing Andrew Wilson’s new novel, A Talent for Murder (Atria Books).Īs a crime genre enthusiast and avid fan of Dame Agatha Christie (“The Queen of Mystery”), the premise was simply irresistible: the author’s infamous eleve-day disappearance in December of 1926-a real-life unsolved mystery-reimagined through the lens of fiction. ![]()
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