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Theory 3: She really was suffering from a rare form of amnesia
觀點3：她患上了罕見的失憶癥
If Mrs. Christie was gone in that moment that she was flung against the steering wheel, who then walked to the train station, bought a ticket to Harrogate and checked herself into the swanky Swan Hydropathic Hotel?
如果阿加莎在被甩到方向盤上的那一刻就失憶了，那么誰會走到火車站，買了一張去哈羅蓋特的車票，住進時髦的天鵝水療酒店？
Technically, a mysterious traveler all the way from Cape Town, South Africa, called "Mrs. Teresa Neele."
嚴格來說，是一位從南非開普敦遠道而來的神秘旅行者，名叫特蕾莎·尼爾夫人。
Yes, Neele; of all the pseudonyms Christie could have chosen, she chose her husband's mistress's moniker and signed it in her own distinctive handwriting.
是的，尼爾；阿加莎在選擇假名時，選擇了丈夫情婦的綽號，并用自己獨特的筆跡簽名。
Depending on how you look at it, the move is either a deliberate clue, a foolish error, or a nonsensical action that proves Christie's official story: "confusion" and "loss of memory."
根據大部分人的看法，這一舉動要么是故意的線索，要么是荒謬的行為，證明了官方說法：“混亂”和“失憶”。
In the aforementioned letter to Charlotte, Christie noted a worrying physical symptom that could point to a rare psychiatric phenomenon: "My head is bursting," she wrote.
在前面提到的給夏洛特的信中，阿加莎曾指出了一種令人擔憂的身體癥狀，這種癥狀可能指向一種罕見的精神現象，“我的頭快炸了，”她寫道。
Severe headaches are experienced by some 85 percent of people with dissociative disorders, and within that umbrella, the little-understood "dissociative fugue" is one in which emotional trauma causes temporary amnesia.
大約85%的分離性障礙患者都會經歷嚴重的頭痛，而在這類疾病中，鮮為人知的“分離性神游癥”是說情感創傷導致暫時性失憶。
Sufferers often wander and travel, seeming normal to unsuspecting onlookers.
患者經常四處游蕩，在毫無戒心的旁觀者看來，他們似乎很正常。
In this case, and very contrary to the idea that Christie was despondent, "Mrs. Neele" spent her time away mingling with patrons, singing and dancing the Charleston, sleeping in, and enjoying breakfast in bed.
在這種情況下，與阿加莎沮喪的狀態截然相反，“尼爾夫人”把時間花在與顧客交往上，在查爾斯頓唱歌跳舞，睡懶覺，在床上享用早餐。
Even if seemingly having a grand ole time, Christie was nonetheless experiencing a "cataclysmic breakdown" caused by "acute mental distress," says Thompson.
湯普森說，盡管阿加莎看起來過得很開心，但她卻經歷了一場“災難性的崩潰”，原因是“嚴重的精神壓力”。
But while some biographers have argued that this solves the mystery, Thompson says she doesn't buy the amnesia story for a minute. "Absolutely not. I think that was something they came up with as a cover story."
但是，盡管一些傳記作者認為這解開了謎團，但湯普森絕不相信失憶的故事。“絕對不，我認為這是他們編造的故事。”
If the author didn't want to ever have to explain anything again, memory loss was a fool-proof excuse.
如果阿加莎不想再解釋任何事情，那么記憶喪失是一個萬無一失的借口。
Theory 4: It was the biggest and best publicity stunt the world had ever seen
觀點4：有史以來最大、最出色的宣傳噱頭
During the 11 days that Christie was missing, Archie sparked another theory in an interview to The Daily Mail.
在阿加莎失蹤的11天里，阿奇在接受《每日郵報》采訪時引發了另一種猜測。
"My wife had discussed the possibility of disappearing at will... engineering a disappearance had been running through her mind, probably for the purpose of her work."
“我妻子曾說過隨意消失的可能性...策劃一次失蹤一直在她腦海中盤旋，可能是為了工作。”
At the time of her disappearance, Christie was a successful writer but not yet a literary sensation.
失蹤時，阿加莎是一位成功的作家，但還不是文學界的轟動人物。
She'd recently published her sixth novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which garnered attention for its (spoiler alert) shocking twist ending: the narrator himself is the murderer.
她最新出版的第六部小說《羅杰疑案》，因其令人震驚的結局（劇透警告）而備受關注：敘述者本人就是兇手。
While no big deal in our modern era of Fight Club and Gone Girl, unreliable narrators were novel in 1926, and readers felt duped.
雖然在《搏擊俱樂部》和《消失的愛人》這樣的現代時代沒什么特殊的，但在1926年，不可靠的敘述者是很新奇的，讀者會覺得被騙了。
Christie had, as biographer Lucy Worsley in Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Women puts it, "a growing reputation for guile."
正如傳記作者露西·沃斯利在《阿加莎·克里斯蒂：一個非常難以捉摸的女人》中所說，阿加莎“越來越以狡猾著稱”。
That the whole incident was a fame-making publicity stunt remains a popular take to this day, and if true, it also worked spectacularly: Newspapers featured her serialized novels next to the news of her disappearance, and book sales immediately doubled.
整個事件都是一個為了出名而進行宣傳的噱頭，至今仍是人們的普遍看法，如果這是真的，那它的效果也非常驚人：報紙在她失蹤的消息旁邊刊登了她的連載小說，書的銷量立即翻了一番。
Her days of humble residuals from small presses were done, and Christie signed an exorbitant six-book contract in 1930.
她靠小出版社的微薄收入生活結束了，阿加莎在1930年一口氣簽訂六本書的合同。
Planned or not, the disappearance made Christie an early example of what Worsley calls "author-as-celebrity" -- which wasn't necessarily a good thing.
不管是否有計劃，這次失蹤使阿加莎成為了沃斯利所說的“名氣作家”的早期例子，這未必是件好事。
Christie was made rich and famous, but the third bestselling author on the planet -- outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible -- lived with the bleak fact that her fabulous career existed largely because of her worst humiliation.
她變得富有和出名，但這位全球排名第三的暢銷書作家--銷量僅次于莎士比亞和圣經--不得不接受一個悲慘的事實：她輝煌的職業生涯很大程度上是因為遭受了最嚴重的羞辱。
"It was accidental, was deeply unpleasant, but it would become a central plank of her massive success," writes Worsley.
沃斯利寫道：“這是偶然的、非常不愉快的，但這將成為她取得巨大成功的核心支柱。”
Unlike every other mystery Agatha Christie gave the world, this one doesn't end with Hercule Poirot definitively deducing what happened, how, and why.
與阿加莎·克里斯蒂留給世人的其他謎團不同，她的失蹤之謎并沒有以赫爾克里·波洛明確地推斷出發生了什么、如何發生以及為什么發生而結束。
No wonder Christie sleuths are still scouring history for clues: Despite all the complicated characters, plot twists, secret motives, and red herrings, Christie deliberately left her greatest mystery story -- her own -- forever unsolved.
以至于她的小說迷們仍在歷史中尋找線索：復雜的人物、情節曲折、秘密動機和干擾性線索，阿加莎故意讓她最偉大的懸疑故事--她自己的故事--永遠沒有答案。
