The New York Times best-selling author and North Carolina native Wiley Cash as he highlights great writers across the state and their work each month. Listen in on conversations between Cash and his author friends as they discuss how North Carolina inspires them on the Our State Book Club podcast.
In 2015, Wilmington-based author Nina de Gramont received an email from her literary agent sharing the disappearance of novelist Agatha Christie in 1926. After leaving letters explaining that she needed to get away, Christie’s car was found near the edge of a quarry, the headlights still burning, her fur coat and other belongings inside. More than 1,000 officers and 15,000 volunteers began looking for her. Planes searched overhead. Ponds and pools were dragged. Christie’s fellow mystery writers put their crime-solving skills to work. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle even hired a psychic.
Eleven days later, Christie was discovered at a hotel in Harrogate, where she’d checked in under the last name of her husband’s mistress. Although she’d go on to become one of the most celebrated mystery writers of all time, Christie never offered a clear explanation of the mystery behind her own disappearance, something that fascinated de Gramont, fueling a story that began to take shape in her mind…