The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Agatha Christie I am afraid I showed my surprise rather plainly. Mrs. Cavendish, who had married John’s father when he was a widower with two sons, had been a handsome woman of middle-age as I remembered her. She certainly could not be a day …Read the Rest
Cat Among the Pigeons – Agatha Christie It was the opening day of the summer term at Meadowbank school. The late afternoon sun shone down on the broad gravel sweep in front of the house. The front door was flung hospitably wide, and just within it, admirably suited to its Georgian proportions, stood Miss Vansittart, every hair in place, wearing an impeccably cut coat and skirt. Some parents who knew no better had taken her for the great Miss Bulstrode herself, not knowing that it was Miss Bulstrode’s custom to retire to a kind of holy of holies to which only a selected and privileged few were taken. To one side of Miss Vansittart, operating on a slightly different plane, was Miss Chadwick, comfortable, knowledgeable, and so much a part of Meadowbank that it would have been impossible to imagine Meadowbank without her. It had never been without her. Miss Bulstrode and Miss Chadwick had started Meadowbank school together. Miss Chadwick wore pince‐nez, stooped, was dowdily dressed, amiably vague in speech, and happened to be a brilliant mathematician. …Read the Rest
And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie That was mostly untrue. But the house had certainly been built by …Read the Rest
Poirot’s Early Cases – Agatha Christie Pure chance led my friend Hercule Poirot, formerly chief of the Belgian force, to …Read the Rest
Towards Zero – Agatha Christie The group round the fireplace was nearly all composed of lawyers or those who had …Read the Rest
Agatha Christie Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was born Agatha May Clarissa Miller in Devon, England in 1890, the youngest of three …Read the Rest