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The Moving Finger
The Moving Finger

by Agatha Christie

and nurses, that I was going to be condemned to lie on my back all my life.

1942 115 ed.
The Body in the Library
The Body in the Library

by Agatha Christie

Mrs. Bantry was dreaming.

1942 127 ed.
Dead Man's Folly
Dead Man's Folly

by Agatha Christie

IT was Miss Lemon, Poirot's efficient secretary, who took the telephone call.

1956 96 ed.
4:50 from Paddington
4:50 from Paddington

by Agatha Christie

Mrs. McGillicuddy panted along the platform in the wake of the porter carrying her suitcase.

1957 140 ed.
Curtain
Curtain

by Agatha Christie

WHO is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

1975 112 ed.
Towards Zero
Towards Zero

by Agatha Christie

The man in the Hospital bed shifted his body slightly and stifled a groan.

1944 94 ed.
Crooked House
Crooked House

by Agatha Christie

I first came to know Sophia Leonides in Egypt towards the end of the war.

1949 113 ed.
Cat Among the Pigeons
Cat Among the Pigeons

by Agatha Christie

ABOUT two months earlier than the first day of the summer term at Meadowbank, certain events had taken place which were ...

1959 96 ed.
The Secret Adversary
The Secret Adversary

by Agatha Christie

"Tommy, old thing!" "Tuppence, old bean!" The two young people greeted each other affectionately, and momentarily blocke...

1922 800 ed.
The Daughter of Time
The Daughter of Time

by Josephine Tey

Grant lay on his high white cot and stared at the ceiling.

1951 129 ed.
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

by Agatha Christie

MR. Morley was not in the best of tempers at breakfast.

1940 104 ed.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...

1892 1132 ed.
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Hercule Poirot's Christmas

by Agatha Christie

STEPHEN pulled up the collar of his coat as he walked briskly along the platform.

1939 110 ed.
Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

ERANO LE CINQUE di una mattina invernale, in Siria.

1933 247 ed.
The Red House Mystery
The Red House Mystery

by A. A. Milne

In the drowsy heat of the summer afternoon the Red House was taking its siesta.

1922 71 ed.
Flatland
Flatland

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Spoken by Horatio, in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, act 1, scene 5, line 164. Hamlet has just been conversing with his f...

1884 584 ed.
Le fantôme de l'opéra
Le fantôme de l'opéra

by Gaston Leroux

It was the evening on which MM. Debienne and Poligny, the managers of the Opera, were giving a last gala performance to ...

1911 131 ed.
Murder on the Links
Murder on the Links

by Agatha Christie

I believe that a well-known anecdote exists to the effect that a young writer, determined to make the commencement of hi...

1923 272 ed.