Forgotten Agatha Christie Novel Discovered

There's always these great stories about manuscripts just suddenly being found on accident. Such is the case with a recent Agatha Christie discovery.

From the piece in the Daily Mail...

They had lain undiscovered for decades, gathering dust in a battered cardboard box.

There were shopping lists and jottings, hastily scribbled notes, and page after page of virtually indecipherable handwriting in blue-lined notebooks.

Had this been a clear-out of some anonymous old woman's attic, the musty papers would surely have been sent to the dump.

But these particular papers belonged to Dame Agatha Christie. And somewhere in the 70 years of ideas and inspiration that they chronicled lay a priceless literary jewel.

For when the notebooks were analysed, the draft of an unknown and unpublished Hercule Poirot story emerged.