The Mysterious Life of the Queen of Mysteries, Agatha Christie

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Sep 20, 2022

Agatha Christie was the queen of mystery writers, so it's fitting that her own life was full of secrets and puzzles, including one mysterious disappearance. Historian Lucy Worsley joins us to discuss her new biography, Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman, which explores her extremely modern mindset, her strange insistence that she was an ordinary housewife, and her struggles with mental illness.

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