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by Agatha Christie
MRS. Ariadne Oliver had gone with the friend with whom she was staying, Judith Butler, to help with the preparations for...
by Agatha Christie
I have met people who enjoy a channel crossing; men who can sit calmly in their deck-chairs and, on arrival, wait until ...
by Agatha Christie
NO seaside town in the south of England is, I think, as attractive as St. Loo.
by Agatha Christie
WHEN Captain Roger Angmering built himself a house in the year 1782 on the island off Leather-combe Bay, it was thought ...
by Agatha Christie
Between 7:30 and 8:30 every morning except Sundays, Johnnie Butt made the round of the village of Chipping Cleghorn on h...
by Ann Radcliffe
On the pleasant banks of the Garonne, in the province of Gascony, stood, in the year 1584, the chateau of Monsieur St. A...
by Agatha Christie
It is difficult to know quite where to begin this story, but I have fixed my choice on a certain Wednesday at luncheon a...
by Agatha Christie
MR. Satterthwaite sat on the terrace of Crow's Nest and watched his host, Sir Charles Cartwright, climbing up the path f...
by Agatha Christie
Gwenda Reed stood, shivering a little, on the quay-side.
by Agatha Christie
I was standing at the window of Poirot's rooms looking out idly on the street below.
by Agatha Christie
MRS. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September-a Thursday.
by Agatha Christie
In the heart of the West End, there are many quiet pockets, unknown to almost all but taxi drivers who traverse them wit...
by Agatha Christie
OLD Lanscombe moved totteringly from room to room, pulling up the blinds.
by Agatha Christie
It was in June of 1935 that I came home from my ranch in South America for a stay of about six months.
by Agatha Christie
Miss Jane Marple was sitting by her window.
by Agatha Christie
In the afternoons it was the custom of Miss Jane Marple to unfold her second newspaper.
by Agatha Christie
"YOU do see, don't you, that she's go to be killed?"
by Agatha Christie
and nurses, that I was going to be condemned to lie on my back all my life.