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GKCfan on 24 Oct 2009 at 4:53 a.m. GMT
I don't remember this in any book, but an Internet search led to several pages that mention that when Christie disappeared for eleven days in the 1920's, her car was found near the Silent Pool.
Paul_Slade on 24 Oct 2009 at 9:56 a.m. GMT
That's what put me on to Silent Pool in the first place. In an old edition of his newspaper column The Straight Dope, Cecil Adams (normally a reliable source) says: "A quarter mile from where her car was found, there was a lake called Silent Pool that Agatha had used in one of her books; one of her characters had drowned there".
When Christie vanished, she'd published six books: The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Secret Adversary, The Murder on the Links, The Man in the Brown Suit, The Secret of Chimneys and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. For all I know, she may have had some short stories out too. Adams' wording suggests Silent Pool must have already appeared in one of her works by the time she disappeared.
I'm trying to (a) confirm that Silent Pool does appear in a Christie book (or short story), (b) find out which one and (c) get the plot details involved. Anyone?
Puffinjill on 25 Oct 2009 at 1:37 p.m. GMT
AC set the short story The Idol House of Astarte at a place called Silent Grove (published 1932). I don't know if that is the location you are looking for. I can't think of her referring to Silent Pool at all.
There is a Patricia Wentworth book called The Silent Pool. Could you of heard of this?
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I believe Christie used Silent Pool in Surrey to kill one of her characters. Can anyone tell which book this figures in, and who she disposed of there? Was it a drowning?
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