The British intelligence service MI5 was concerned about some details from the crime novel of the famous writer Agatha Christie, so during the Second World War she was included in the investigation, writes "The Guardian".
The newspaper states that the suspicion was caused by the novel "N or M" from 1941, in which, along with the famous detective couple Tommy and Tuppence, there is also a character named Major Bletchley, who knows many details about the secrets of British intelligence and their work during the Second World War. .
Bletchley Park is the name of the famous intelligence center in the town of Bletchley, where the British studied German codes, and where one of Agatha Christie's close friends, Dilly Knox, worked.
"Bletchley is one of the most unlikeable characters in my book"
MI5 suspected that the man who was one of the people responsible for "breaking" the German encryption machine "Enigma" had inadvertently revealed too much to his friend. However, no one dared to question Agatha Christie directly, for fear that she would also mention it in one of her books.
That is why Knox himself asked questions for the service, who could not guarantee whether he had revealed any tricky information to Agatha Christie. Of course, they had a conversation over a cup of tea.
“Bletchley? My dear, I named the character that because I once got stuck in that little town on a train journey. It was my little revenge, Bletchley is one of the most unsympathetic characters in my book," said Christy, writes "The Guardian".
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