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    The Four Suspects
    The Four Suspects
    The Four Suspects
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    The Four Suspects

    By Agatha Christie

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    In this short story, Agatha Christie presents the problem of unpunished crimes. During one meeting of the Tuesday Night Club. Henry Clithering, former commissioner of Scotland Yard, exposes an unsolved case. The mystery involves a murder with four suspects. It is only known that one of them worked in a terrorist organization bent on murdering the victim. Thanks to a series of clues, Miss Marple will be able to identify the true culprit and unravel the mystery.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMB Cooltura
    Release dateMay 28, 2024
    ISBN9789877449396
    The Four Suspects
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    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

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      Chapter 1

      The conversation hovered round undiscovered and unpunished crimes. Everyone in turn vouchsafed their opinion: Colonel Bantry, his plump amiable wife, Jane Helier, Dr. Lloyd, and even old Miss Marple. The one person who did not speak was the one best fitted in most people’s opinion to do so. Sir Henry Clithering, ex-Commissioner of Scotland Yard, sat silent, twisting his moustache—or rather stroking it—and half smiling, as though at some inward thought that amused him.

      Sir Henry, said Mrs. Bantry at last. If you don’t say something I shall scream. Are there a lot of crimes that go unpunished, or are there not?

      You’re thinking of newspaper headlines, Mrs. Bantry. SCOTLAND YARD AT FAULT AGAIN. And a list of unsolved mysteries to follow.

      Which really, I suppose, form a very small percentage of the whole? said Dr. Lloyd.

      Yes; that is so. The hundreds of crimes that are solved and the perpetrators punished are seldom heralded and sung. But that isn’t quite the point at issue, is it? When you talk of undiscovered crimes and unsolved crimes, you are talking of two different things. In the first category come all the crimes that Scotland Yard never hears about, the crimes that no one even knows have been committed.

      But I suppose there aren’t very many of those? said Mrs. Bantry.

      Aren’t there?

      Sir Henry! You don’t mean there are?

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