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I have a copy myself. A good read, but Agatha was always an intensely private woman, and that continued in the autobiography. What tipped her over the edge on the "disappearance" was that she was packing up the effects after her mother died, and at the same time her husband ran off with another woman. Too much at once.
Otherwise, very interesting. Educated at home, elderly father was a native of New York, who died when she was young; had her social coming out society "debut" in Cairo, could read and speak French. She was more cosmopolitan that most women of her era, enjoyed travel. She was in South Africa during the short-lived Rand Rebellion, and used the experience to good effect in "The Man in the Brown Suit", one of her better comic adventure novels.
She does describe how she went about writing her books, lots of planning and thought in notebooks, before settling down to write. Recommended to anyone who likes to read lives of authors. There is also a good biography, which fills in some of the gaps carefully glossed over by Agatha Christie in the autobiog.
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