Agatha Christie's True Crime Inspirations by Mike Holgate

Author:Mike Holgate [Holgate, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Agatha Christie’s: True Crime Inspiration
ISBN: 9780752475929
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2011-11-28T13:00:00+00:00

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STRANGER THAN FICTION

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Following Agatha Christie’s death, her final novel Sleeping Murder (1976) was published featuring the last case of Miss Marple, written during the Second World War and then kept in a vault. In the book a woman returns to her childhood home, where events trigger long-suppressed memories of the time when he saw the murdered body of her mother.

Amazingly, in 1979 real-life similarities with Christie’s story occurred in North Carolina, where Annie Perry started having terrifying ‘visions’ of the time when she was aged ten and her father suddenly disappeared from the family farm in April 1944. Annie’s flashbacks recalled how on Easter Sunday, she had seen her mother in the kitchen with the sink full of pots and pans in bloody water, the naked body of her father in an unused room and the noise of butchering sounds in the night. The week after her father’s disappearance, when using the outside privy, she clearly remembered seeing his face floating in the water. After consulting a psychiatrist about these disturbing visions, she was advised to make a report to the police. They took the matter seriously and dug up the site of the old privy, where human remains were duly found.

Annie’s mother, Winnie Cameron, had reported her husband missing and in due course obtained a divorce on grounds of desertion. When the gruesome discovery was made thirty-five years later, she shot herself, leaving a note confessing to the murder.

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