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Originally Posted by Hitch
Sure, the Dame disappeared for some days--not years. She didn't allow people to go to her own funeral and all that. She didn't allow friends and family to grieve, thinking she'd suicided.
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If you mean Agatha Christie,
more than one thousand policemen* were assigned to the case, along with hundreds of civilians. For the first time, aeroplanes were also involved in the search. So, if Christie was consciously choosing not to be found, she was wasting a lot of police resources and putting others in danger (and Christie would have quickly known about it from newspapers). Also, she had a 7 year old daughter. Since the daughter was protective of her mother and refused to ever answer press or biographer questions about the 11 days, we don’t know if family grieved, but it is plausible.
Even more plausible is that learning her husband was having an affair, and wanted a divorce, pushed her into a nervous breakdown.
Some people become irrational when under too much stress, and then recover. How long it takes to recover is variable.
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* Gendered language is quoted from my link. I’m sure there were also, at least a few, policewomen.