perplexed biographers ever since. But BBC historian Lucy Worsley now believes she has gotten to the bottom of Agatha Christie's 1926 disappearance arguing that it was prompted by a rare psychological state caused by emotional trauma.
Worsley has said that Christie entered a “fugue state”, in which sufferers lose their sense of self while experiencing amnesia and setting off on journeys to unexpected locations.
Worsley, who has researched the episode for a biography titled Agatha Christie, told BBC History magazine: "This mysterious disappearance of 11 days seems to be the central injustice of Agatha Christie's life.
She added: "By 1926 Agatha was a successful novelist, and she was under a lot of pressure to keep producing books. But her mother died that year, and she went into an episode of what today would be described as a depression. "She reported forgetfulness, tearfulness, insomnia, an inability to cope with normal life.
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