On a train platform in London, Agatha Christie is pushed and then rescued from falling in front of an on-coming train. Her rescuer, Dr Kurs, turns out to be the person who pushed her. He blackmails Agatha. If she won't do as he says and help him in his plot to kill his wife, then he will let everyone know about her husband's affair with the much younger woman Miss Nancy Neele.
When told to do so Agatha has to meet Dr Kurs by the pond. Here he pushes her car, leaving her coat and overnight bag inside, and they set off a journey. During the eleven days that Agatha Christie was missing in the winter of 1926, we learn of the plot made by Dr Kurs, his blackmail of Agatha and Agatha's attempt to manipulate the situation so that it appears she has carried out the request without actually committing a murder.
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