Correction: I do know one thing about Gillian Flynn, her admiration for Agatha Christie, whose real-life fugue made her the original “gone girl”

When I said in yesterday’s post that I don’t know anything about Gillian Flynn, I forgot she has said in interviews that Agatha Christie is her favorite mystery novelist. And as others have noted, the connection is significant, because Christie’s famous real-life fugue in 1926 made her, in a sense, the original “gone girl.”

Incidentally, another favorite mentioned by Flynn is Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” whose main character has multiple personality.

I have many past posts about Agatha Christie’s multiple personality. Search “Christie” in this blog to read those posts, including the ones that mention Flynn.