Agatha Christie: The Seven Dials Mystery
Bundle stared at him. And very slowly the world, which for the last three quarters of an hour had been upside down, shifted till it stood once more the right […]
Bundle stared at him. And very slowly the world, which for the last three quarters of an hour had been upside down, shifted till it stood once more the right […]
For though a migraine is a physiological event, it is not just a physiological event, but one that tends to be strongly related to, and determined by, the affected individual […]
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The forty-seven places that make up this book are here because each of them, in a different way, forced me to rethink what I knew about place. They have not […]
Dreyfus took in the scene of the crime from the vantage point of a Panoply cutter. It would have been quick, he reflected, but perhaps not fast enough to be […]
From what I have said so far, I think the concept of lightness is begininng to take shape. Above all I hope to have shown that there is such a […]
‘While this is a robbery …’ the thief said. His accent was thick and British, the kind that makes North Americans feel slightly ashamed. He flicked his head and a […]
One day, though, she decided it was time to move to a town with a foghorn. [… S]he missed the sound, or believed that she missed the sound, and believed […]
News arrived! I was being sent to Russia! To some place called Novosibirsk. I was extremely pleased as I’d always wanted to visit somewhere ending in ‘sk’. I’d favoured Omsk, […]
A young girl was going to make a collar, but she had spoiled the fabric in cutting the collar out. A dressmaker had to be called in to put her […]