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Prologue. November 19th
‘Open the Door and Here are the People’ January 11th
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Snow White and Red Rose
A Fine Italian Hand …
Zero Hour
ALSO BY AGATHA CHRISTIE
About the Publisher
To Robert Graves
Dear Robert,
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‘I like a good detective story,’ he said. ‘But, you know, they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. But the murder is the end. The story begins long before that—years before sometimes—with all the causes and events that bring certain people to a certain place at a certain time on a certain day. Take that little maid servant’s evidence—if the kitchenmaid hadn’t pinched her young man she wouldn’t have thrown up her situation in a huff and gone to the Lamornes and been the principal witness for the defence. That Guiseppe Antonelli—coming over to exchange with his brother for a month. The brother is as blind as a bat. He wouldn’t have seen what Guiseppe’s sharp eyes saw. If the constable hadn’t been sweet on the cook at No 48, he wouldn’t have been late on his beat …’
He nodded his head gently:
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