Agatha Christie gets the Marie Benedict treatment in this novel about Christie's 11-day disappearance in 1926. Alternating sections address Christie's early life and marriage and, from her husband Archie's viewpoint, her disappearance and eventual reappearance. This is a well-written and entertaining look at the mystery of what might have happened to Christie during those 11 days, during which she had amnesia. Interestingly, Benedict's depiction of Christie is very different from how she portrays her in
The Queens of Crime, in which she is described over and over as frumpy and drab, but perhaps that was due to the latter book's narrator being Dorothy Sayers.
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