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At 9:45 p.m. on Friday, December 3, 1926, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie packed a small suitcase, her driver's license, a photo of her young daughter, and a large amount of cash into her Morris Cowley car and set out into the cold night in Berkshire, England.
1926年12月3日星期五晚上9點45分，知名偵探小說家阿加莎·克里斯蒂攜帶一只小行李箱、駕駛執照、一張女兒的照片和一大筆現金，然后駕車駛入英格蘭伯克郡寒冷的夜色中。
The next morning, her abandoned car, with packed suitcase and fur coat still inside, wasfound in a chalk pit with the headlights left on; the 36-year-old writer was nowhere to be found.
第二天早上，她那輛被遺棄的汽車在一處坑里被發現，車內裝滿了行李和一件皮大衣，車燈還亮著，但這位36歲的作家卻不見蹤影。
For 11 days, an increasingly frantic search snowballed into a global media circus with sensational daily front-page headlines and 15,000 volunteer citizen detectives scouring the English countryside.
在這11天里，搜尋行動越來越緊張，最終演變成了一場全球媒體盛宴，每天都有聳人聽聞的頭條新聞，還有1.5萬名志愿者在英格蘭鄉村四處搜尋。
Theories ranged from suicide to murder to nervous breakdown to publicity hoax for the writer, who'd churned out six mystery novels in six years and enjoyed modest success but was not yet a household name.
對于這位在六年內創作了六本懸疑小說并大獲成功、但還不是家喻戶曉的作家來說，當時各種說法不一，從自殺到謀殺，到精神崩潰，再到作家的宣傳騙局。
Christie was finally found some 220 miles away at the Swan Hydropathic Hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire, on December 15.
然而12月15日，克里斯蒂在距其失蹤地220英里的英格蘭約克郡一家水療酒店被找到。
Checked in under a pseudonym, she seemed to be suffering from amnesia, reading a newspaper in which her own disappearance was front-page news.
她以假名登記入住，被發現時似乎患有失憶，正閱讀一份報紙，上面正是她自己的失蹤事件。
When her husband arrived to pick her up, Christie recognized him as familiar but said she couldn't place him.
當她丈夫來接她時，克里斯蒂認出這是熟悉的人，但說不出名字。
The two sat for an awkward dinner while reporters took notes for the next day's front page.
兩人坐在一起吃了一頓尷尬的晚餐，記者們則為第二天的頭條做著筆記。
"The Missing Novelist Mystery Solved," read one headline. But they couldn't be more wrong.
“失蹤作家之謎解開！” 一條新聞標題這樣寫道。但他們的說法完全錯誤。
A century later, the game's still afoot for Christie biographers and real-life detectives still trying to solve a hundred-year-old mystery: Why did the world's most famous author disappear for 11 days in 1926?
一個世紀后，對于克里斯蒂傳記作家和現實生活中的偵探來說，這場游戲仍在繼續，他們仍在試圖解開一個百年之謎：為什么世界上最著名的作家在1926年突然失聯了11天？
