Christie, Agatha

Agatha Christie and her ilk, that is writers who make the puzzle paramount, are in the minority.

But at second blush, this situation is a little like an Agatha Christie mystery.

Agatha Christie was so partial to cream that she regularly kept some by her typewriter, to sip while she wrote.

Go missing for a week and, like Agatha Christie and Judge Crater, you will make news.

But there is one juicy morsel in the latest discovery, food for thought for those with an Agatha Christie complex.