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How many of Agatha Christies mysteries went unsolved ?

Asked by Booknight (704points) December 12th, 2009

Did Agatha Christie write any fictional stories, other then Murder On The Orient Express, in which the murderer(s) were not brought to justice ?

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Jeruba's avatar

I’m reaching back into pretty old memories here, but I read most of them and I don’t believe any was left unsolved. The mystery novel is a pretty rigid genre, and you couldn’t go around leaving readers hanging and still keep your audience.

faye's avatar

Did she write Ten Little Indians? The information is at the bottom of my brain and I can’t get to it for all the junk.

YARNLADY's avatar

According to Unsolved Mysteries TV show “Mystery writer, Agatha Christie, became the subject of her own real life mystery when in 1926 her car was found abandoned just outside of London and Christie was no where to be found. She would later turn up and now historians speculate on where Christie may have been during her brief disappearance.”

The wikipedia report details several endings where justice was not fullfilled, although the crime was solved.

faye's avatar

I hope she had a wonderful little interlude.

Booknight's avatar

Help please. I need some advice on fluther etiquette. I see the Thank tab. Would it be okay to thank all of you or would that be swimming against the flow ?

faye's avatar

You could just write ‘thanks everyone’ if you want.

Booknight's avatar

Thanks everyone.
thanks faye

faye's avatar

No problem, it’s fun to have so many new people!

Jeruba's avatar

@YARNLADY, do you remember the 1979 movie called Agatha, starring Vanessa Redgrave, that used her disappearance as a plotline?

gailcalled's avatar

And “usolved” is different than not prosecuting the killers.

Booknight's avatar

@gailcalled I used unsolved because I couldn’t think of a better word. I was happy I could give more detail to explain what I meant by unsolved. Guess I should have pulled out my thesaurus.

gailcalled's avatar

How about “How many of Agatha Christie’s murderers were not brought to justice, caught, punished, or allowed to got off scott-free”?

Booknight's avatar

@gailcalled Now that would have been a well worded question taking note and learning
I’ll try to do better with my next question.

evegrimm's avatar

May I suggest watching the Doctor Who episode, “The Unicorn and the Wasp”? It explains (in sci-fi terms, anyway) what happened to Agatha Christie when she disappeared. It’s a fun little episode, too.

YARNLADY's avatar

@Jeruba @evegrimm Yes, I always love episodes of shows that use ‘mysteries’ of history as part of their plot line. There were several episodes in the Star Trek series that gave homage to various historical figures as well.

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