Did you guess the murderer?
Agatha Christie, one of the world's most famous detective novelists, is also the "best-selling author" in the Guinness Book of Records.
Even if you haven't read her original work, you must have heard of "No One Survives", "Murder on the Orient Express", and "Murder on the Nile".
Her works have been translated into more than 100 languages and have been adapted into countless films and TV series. In the cases she writes, the tricks are subtle and the murderers are always unexpected.
But in her own real life, she also left behind a mystery that no one knows yet.
In December 1926, she disappeared dramatically for 11 days.
On December 4, in Berkshire, England, a teenager walking his dog in the early morning found a car in the bushes with a suitcase in it, with some women's clothes scattered in it, and the teenager immediately called the police.
The police found through the driver's license that it was the famous novelist Agatha.
On December 6, the British "Daily Mail" published the news of Agatha's disappearance. Major newspapers published front-page headlines one after another, reporting the matter at length, and a lot of eye-catching speculation appeared in the report.
Agatha, who was 36 at the time, had just become famous through "The Roger Mystery" and was almost a household name. Her disappearance caused the whole UK to boil.
Not only that, but the news quickly spread across the ocean, and the New York Times covered it on the front page.
On the British side, due to the enthusiastic response from the public, the superiors were alerted, and then Home Secretary William Joynson Hicks ordered the police to solve the case as soon as possible.
The newspaper not only spent £500 (a huge sum of money at the time) offering a reward for intelligence on Agatha, but the police also offered a huge reward in the newspaper for clues, and dispatched almost all police forces to join the operation, and also dispatched a small plane A search was carried out, the first in British history to find a person by plane.
For a while, there was a lot of dangling news. Some people said that Agatha had been talking to people about the method of suicide. Some people said that they seemed to see her in the morning and looked very negative.
This incident also caught the attention of other writers in the detective fiction world. Conan Doyle, who wrote "Sherlock Holmes," studied the gloves she left behind, and he believed that "Christy would never kill herself, and I believe she will in a month. in front of a wide audience."
Another female detective writer, Dorothy Leigh Sayers, also played a real detective. She went to the place where the car was found to search for clues for the first time, and the whole process after that was written into a novel by her. In "Very Dead".
During the police search in the world, Agatha's husband's derailment was exposed, which also pointed the finger of the case to the direction of her husband's love and murder.
Eleven days later, on December 14, Agatha was found in a hotel at a spa resort, checking in with her husband's lover's surname.
People are waiting for the truth of these 11 days, but Agatha, who is safe and sound, claimed that she had temporary amnesia and said that she would never mention the story.
Agatha lives up to her word, and it's not even mentioned in her later autobiography.
This has made people's speculation even more serious. This year, the United Kingdom simply opened up a brain hole on this famous disappearance mystery, and made a movie to "reveal" what the grandmother did in the past.
"Agatha and the Truth of Murder"
The film is purely fictitious, and at the end of the film it is very upright and straightforward to indicate that it has not received any authorization or consent from Grandma. It can be said that it is completely fan-oriented, and it must be something that Grandma fans can do.
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These 11 days, of course, grandma is going to be a detective to solve the case, and she must solve a high-fake version of the "Agatha-style murder case".
In a mansion, five people are informed by a mysterious person that they will become the heirs of a huge inheritance, a windfall, and there is no reason to refuse.
So people gathered here, waiting to be selected, but strange things happened one by one, people lost their luggage, and people died one by one...
Does this routine sound familiar?
This is the classic pattern of Agatha-style murders, and it's perfectly set into the film, but this time it's not a revenge plan from Mysterio, and Mystery is no longer mysterious, it's Agatha herself.
How did she get to this point?
The film restores some of Agatha's experiences before her disappearance. For example, her husband cheated and wanted to divorce, but she insisted on disagreeing, and her writing also encountered a bottleneck.
However, there is still a lot of room for improvement.
Agatha, who was at a bottleneck in writing, ran to Conan Doyle, hoping he could give her some advice.
The picture of these two standing together chatting and playing golf can be said to be very broken.
In the end, Conan Doyle convincingly told her a way to overcome the bottleneck that no one knew - build a golf course.
Agatha hated golf because her husband and lover got together on the golf course, but she decided to try the unreliable method.
She ran to experts for advice on how to build a golf course, only to be ridiculed that women couldn't build a golf course.
So she went home and built a perfect model of the stadium herself.
Just then, a fan ran to her house for help.
Her name was Mabel, a former nurse on the battlefield, and she was here for Florence, her same-sex partner who had been dead for six years.
Florence was murdered on a train six years ago, but the killer has never been caught.
Agatha refused at first, after all, she is not a detective, but later, she was infected by Mabel's sincerity, and at the same time she wanted to temporarily escape the troubles of life, so she began to investigate the case.
Following her own routine, she wrote letters to notify the five people involved in the case, informing them that their distant relatives had left an inheritance that they needed to inherit.
Then find a big mansion forgotten by the owner, let Mabel play the maid, and she herself is the investigator of the inheritance.
Five people arrived as promised, and there were also relatives.
Among the five people, there are the wounded whom the deceased Florence rescued, her cousin, her colleague when she was a nurse, and the mother of the wounded she rescued.
By the time Agatha arrived at the mansion, news of her disappearance had already spread.
And after disguising, the few people who were thinking about her legacy did not recognize her at all.
Agatha asked Mabel to steal their luggage, check it out, and found that there was nothing wrong.
Then came the moment of acting.
She first called Daphne, a young and beautiful female nurse, and her father came with her this time.
Florence's death had a direct impact on Daphne.
At the time, Daphne made a mistake, and as soon as Florence turned in a report, Daphne's career was ruined.
So, this is her direct killing intent.
But she is not the murderer. Agatha believes that Daphne's father is the murderer who killed Florence in order to protect his daughter.
Agatha said that Daphne is eligible for inheritance, and she will inherit the bulk.
However, not long after the news spread, Daphne's father was shot dead.
According to witnesses Pamela and her son, the killer was trying to kill Daphne, and her father blocked the bullet for her.
When people were killed, the murderer was among several people, so they could only call the police.
After the police came, there was no way to bring them back to the police station, because other police officers went to find the missing Agatha, and they could only continue to be under house arrest in the mansion.
But soon, the private meeting between Agatha and Mabel was caught, and the fake identities of the two were discovered, but they couldn't guess the truth.
Part of the truth is revealed by Agatha, a private investigator hired by Mabel to investigate Florence's death.
At this time, Mabel disappeared. Florence's cousin, who has always hated Mabel, revealed that Mabel was a control freak.
All this seems to have shifted the focus of suspicion to Mabel again. Could it be just a hoax she carefully designed? And Agatha is also one of the deceived?
Agatha ran to find Mabel, but bumped into Daphne crying on the stairs, found her injured hand, and finally knew who killed Daphne's father.
And Mabel was hiding in the closet in his room with a gun in his hand.
She claimed the gun was planted under her pillow and Mabel was later taken away by police.
The matter was not as simple as Agatha thought before. During the subsequent investigation, Agatha also learned an important piece of information. The murderer's shoe print was left at the scene of the murder, which was the sole of a pair of military boots.
This information seems to exclude a lot of people, and it is getting closer and closer to the truth.
But by coincidence, the police recognized Agatha at this time, and deeply criticized Agatha for turning the world upside down, but he was a cos detective here.
In order not to be taken away, Agatha told the police a lot of things from her heart, and said that she already knew who the murderer was. As long as the police cooperated in a play, the murderer would definitely show up.
The police expressed their willingness to assist, so the two worked together to lead the murderer out, and finally punished the murderer with the law without evidence.
Agatha came home, explained everything with amnesia, agreed to her husband's divorce, and wrote a new book, "The Tragedy on the Nile" (in terms of time, "The Tragedy on the Nile" was 11 years after her disappearance. later published).
Agatha is good at depicting group portraits, and analyzes the psychological layers of many suspects in terms of their historical background and growth environment, and finally deduces their motives for murder.
Among grandma's suspects, the one who looks the least like the murderer is often the real murderer.
This time, can you guess right?
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