 In December 1926 the author Agatha Christie suddenly disappeared from her home.She was missing for a total of eleven days, during which the police conducted a major manhunt, and there was speculation that she had committed suicide.The disappearance even drew other crime writers Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dorothy L. Sayers into the search, Doyle's interest in the occult prompting him to take one of Christie's gloves to a medium.