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by Agatha Christie
The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.
by Dorothy L. Sayers
So Peter is really married: I have ordered willow-wreaths for half my acquaintance.
by Agatha Christie
MR. Isaac Pointz removed a cigar from his lips and said approvingly: "Pretty little place."
by Agatha Christie
"Take all this business about Kenya," said Major Palgrave.
by Agatha Christie
It was close on midnight when a man crossed the Place de la Concorde.
by Dorothy L. Sayers
And by the," said Mr. Hankin, arresting Miss Rossiter as she rose to go,"there is a new copy-writer coming today."
by Thomas De Quincey, Charles Dickens
Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did ...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
The idea that the extraordinary narrative which has been called the Joyce-Armstrong Fragment is an elaborate practical j...
by Agatha Christie
"Linnet Ridgeway!" "That's her!" said Mr. Burnaby, the landlord of the Three Crowns.
by Agatha Christie
Major Burnaby drew on his gum boots, buttoned his overcoat collar round his neck, took from a shelf near the door a hurr...
by Agatha Christie
That amiable youth, Jimmy Thesiger, came racing down the big staircase at Chimneys two steps at a time.
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 Mark Twain, Edmund Reiss
IN compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old ...
by Agatha Christie
I was standing at the window of Poirot's rooms looking out idly on the street below.
by Gertrude Chandler Warner
An exciting summer began for the four Alden children with the bang of a door.
by Julian Hawthorne, Guy de Maupassant
MELANCHTHON was dancing with the Bat, whose costume represented her in an inverted position.