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to the house immediately. He introduces Miss Glen to his other guests and is not surprised to see that Mr Quin has arrived. When Alix joins them, she recognises Miss Glen. They relive that dreadful night and now, after fourteen years, Alix reveals that the reason for the suicide was a letter Lord
Charnley received from a guest telling him that she was pregnant by him – just a month after his marriage to Alix. Monkton thinks that explains all, but Satterthwaite wants to know why Bristow's picture portrays the dead figure in the Terrace Room and not in the Oak Parlour. This suicide may be a murder. He thinks the death occurred there and the body was put in the Oak Parlour afterwards.
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himself. His audience is stunned at the accusation that Capel was a murderer, objecting that he was not at the
Appleton home on the day of the death; but Quin points out that strychnine is not soluble and would collect at the bottom of the decanter if placed there a week before. Why did Mrs Appleton smash the decanter? At Quin's prompting, Satterthwaite theorises it was to protect Capel, not to cover her own guilty tracks. Mr Quin leaves the house. Eleanor Portal follows him down the drive to say thank you, and then she and her husband are reconciled. Eleanor is the former Mrs Appleton. Capel's suicide left her unable to clear her name totally, until Quin's appearance.
920:, Quin is first described in the following passage: "Framed in the doorway stood a man's figure, tall and slender. To Mr Satterthwaite, watching, he appeared by some curious effect of the stained glass above the door, to be dressed in every colour of the rainbow. Then, as he stepped forward, he showed himself to be a thin dark man dressed in motoring clothes." Later in the same story, the mask effect is described thus: "Mr Quin acknowledged the introductions, and dropped into the chair that Evesham had hospitably pulled forward. As he sat, some effect of the firelight threw a bar of shadow across his face which gave almost the impression of a mask."
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man who had won a large gamble and was defying the odds, yet ten minutes later he shot himself. A late post of letters and newspapers arrived, the first for several days in the snow-bound countryside, but Capel had not opened any of the letters. A policeman was at the house, returning one of Capel's dogs that had strayed. He was in the kitchen when the shot was fired. Quin asks them to place the exact date, possibly by reference to some event in the news, and the men remember it was the time of the
Appleton murder trial. Mr Appleton was an old man who mistreated his far younger wife, and Capel was a friend of theirs. Appleton died by
691:, a strong and generous woman who can be miserly on the small expenses. At their first meal, the duchess spots Naomi Carlton Smith, a young artist who is a cousin to her. She was involved with a young writer who, the year before, was accused of stealing jewellery and imprisoned. Mr Satterthwaite likes her art, and buys a drawing from her. The three arrange a picnic for the next day with a fourth person, Mr Tomlinson, who has a car. At the appointed time they drive up into the mountains and eventually stop where the road finishes at an isolated coastal village of the name of
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Europe. He speaks of the
Countess: he praises the woman herself and the exotic life she has led. Satterthwaite is more dubious of the tales she tells of her adventures in diplomatic intrigues. Soon afterwards the Countess joins them. After Rudge has gone, Satterthwaite receives the impression that he is being warned off by the Countess. She means to have Rudge and she perceives Satterthwaite as an impediment to her plans. He is puzzled as to why she pursues the young American when she appears to have everything that she desires, with her fine clothes and exquisite jewels.
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One of them went on foot and met Sir George returning from his game. All of the parties involved had alibis – Sir George left his game at 6:30 pm, Sylvia Dale was at the station seeing a friend off on the 6:28 pm train, and Sir George's secretary, Henry
Thompson, was in London on business. Wylde admitted that he took his gun to Deering Hill, but stated that he left it outside the door and forgot it when he left the house, after a scene with Lady Barnaby. He left the house at 6:15 pm. He took a longer than usual time to reach his home, but his reason was not believed.
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Keeley, a brilliant mathematician but socially quiet man affectionately called the invisible man, is Madge's father. Among the guests are Roger's mother Mrs Graham, Doris Coles, and
Mabelle and Gerard Annesley. Mabelle strikes Satterthwaite as "The Bird with the Broken Wing". He notices that Roger seems distracted, and later hears from Mabelle that earlier in the day she saw a figure in the woods who could only have been Mr Quin. Taking this as his cue to speak with her, he finds out that she is blissfully happy. Gerard fetches her to play for the group on her
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Satterthwaite. He is afraid for Anna, so he and Oranoff rush down to the tip where they see Anna's dead body. Quin turns up and Satterthwaite asks why the maid could not see Mr Quin as he could. Quin replies that, Satterthwaite has never passed down Lovers' Lane himself, he can see things other people cannot. Quin asks Satterthwaite if he regrets the fact that he has never passed down Lovers' Lane, and Satterthwaite suddenly feels afraid of Quin, and ultimately answers that he does not regret it. Quin then quietly departs.
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695:, which Naomi Smith terms "the World's End". There, Satterthwaite is delighted to see Mr Quin sitting on a boulder and looking out to sea. He has a feeling that Quin has turned up "in the nick of time". The group has brought a picnic with them, but as it is starting to snow they find a rough stone shelter wherein they find three other visitors from England: Vyse, the theatrical producer, Rosina Nunn the famous actress and her husband, Mr Judd. They are also enjoying a picnic and the two parties settle down to eat.
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mysterious Mr Quin – the man who appears from nowhere – who 'comes and goes' like the invisible
Harlequin of old. Who is Mr Quin? No one knows, but he is one who 'speaks for the dead who cannot speak for themselves', and he is also a friend to lovers. Prompted by his mystic influence, Mr Satterthwaite plays a real part in life at last, and unravels mysteries that seem incapable of solution. In Mr Quin, Agatha Christie has created a character as fascinating as Hercule Poirot himself.
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at 6:20 pm. Satterthwaite realises that Sir George put the clocks back by ten minutes to give himself an alibi; he had intercepted his wife's note that morning. He put the telephone out of order to prevent the police from logging an emergency call against a specific time. Having heard the maid's story of the sign in the sky, he realised that she alone had evidence that could smash his alibi, and so got his secretary to get her out of the country.
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says now she will change to being with one who loved her so many years. Anna tells
Satterthwaite after her dance, "I know, my friend, I know. But there is no third way. Always one looks for one thing--the lover, the perfect, the eternal lover... It is the music of Harlequin one hears. No lover ever satisfies one, for all lovers are mortal. And Harlequin is only a myth, an invisible presence... unless------" ... "Unless--his name is--Death!"
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smoke coming from under Mrs Graham's door. He investigates the cause. He finds some incompletely burnt letters in the grate; there are enough fragments to show they are from
Mabelle to Roger about an affair between them. He confronts Mrs Graham, who admits that she burnt them to prevent trouble for her engaged son. Roger says he did not kill Mabelle, and admits he had been bewitched by her, but had not told her it was ended last night.
562:. He arrives just before the interval, when he bumps into Mr Quin. He invites Quin to watch the second opera with him in his private box, from where they spot an absolutely beautiful-looking girl in the stalls before the lights go down. In the next interval they spot the girl sitting with an earnest-looking young man, and see that they are joined by another young man whose arrival appears to have generated some tension in the group.
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she is planning to commit suicide to hide the truth from him forever. Again, Satterthwaite finds himself persuading someone to live. He asks her to take no action for twenty-four hours, but to leave the shutter he opened unlatched and to wait there tonight. He returns to the hotel, finds Cosden, and refers obliquely to the shutter on the villa that he opened. Cosden understands his meaning and leaves.
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him into the house for tea as she wishes to talk to someone. She unburdens herself to Satterthwaite, telling him that she has lived here for the last twenty-three years, for all but the first year as a widow. She married an Englishman when she was eighteen and they moved into the villa. The marriage proved to be a dreadful mistake as her husband gloried in making her miserable, and their baby was
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repairs his broken-down car. He knows this part of the world and knew Derek Capel, and he skilfully steers the conversation round to the question of why Capel should suddenly take his own life. Satterthwaite feels that Quin's appearance on this night is no accident. As the discussion continues, Satterthwaite spots Eleanor Portal crouched down in the darkness at the top of the stairs listening in.
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the room shown is the Terrace Room at Charnley, a house owned by Lord Charnley which Satterthwaite has visited. He buys the picture and meets the artist, whom he invites for dinner that night at his house. The artist joins Satterthwaite and Colonel Monkton who was at Charnley the night fourteen years earlier when the previous Lord Charnley committed suicide.
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especially why a blonde would dye her hair dark when the reverse is more common. After the clocks strike midnight, the older members among the guests mention Derek Capel, the previous owner of Royston, who committed suicide ten years previously, seemingly without reason. Tom Evesham stops this conversation and a few minutes later the women retire to bed.
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over the next two years he realised what a mistake he had made, as the woman made his life a misery and left him. She reappeared two years later, dressed in rich clothes and fabulous jewels, and he asked if she was coming back to him. She left again and the man sank further into drunkenness, eventually saved by the discipline of the army during the
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like the storied cavalier, donning his wife's hat to complete the profile. He shot the two from the window and then threw the pistol onto the grass below. He was happy to let Mrs Staverton take the blame. Contrary to rumour, she fell for Porter in Africa, not Scott. Porter did not realise this, and Quin suggests he comfort the wrongly accused lady.
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was the last person downstairs, switching off the lights as Mabelle returned for her instrument. He quickly killed her and then later in the night returned to move the body to her own room. Why did he do it? Laughing insanely about how no one notices him, Keeley admits the crime as Winkfield walks into the room.
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seemingly in fancy dress, in "a kind of Harlequin rig". Satterthwaite is surprised at this mention of his old friend and tells his new acquaintance that Mr Quin's appearances usually presage revelations and discoveries. The younger man comments that his appearance seemed very sudden, as if he came from the sea.
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George as a fussy man of fixed habits who himself rewinds the clocks in the house every Friday. She makes advances to Martin Wylde, a gentleman farmer. Wylde did enter into an affair with Lady Barnaby, but at the same time was involved in a relationship with Sylvia Dale, the daughter of the local doctor.
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Oranoff expects to meet Anna that night. Satterthwaite sees Anna and a figure dressed as Harlequin in the "Lover's Lane"; the Harlequin is Mr Quin but somehow with a face like Denham had ten years earlier, when he was still adventurous. Anna's maid saw her go by, but saw her walk alone, which greatly
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in the early days of the revolution. After dinner, Anna calls to learn if the dancers have arrived yet, only to learn that they have been injured in a car crash. Prince Sergius Oranoff drove the car, and arrives later. Anna knows Oranoff, and seems quite happy in his presence. Satterthwaite likes him
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Satterthwaite insists she did not kill herself but was murdered. The inspector questions him alone, confirms his suspicions, and asks for his help. The rope which they found around her neck was much thicker than the marks of the cord that killed her. Thinking carefully, Satterthwaite remembers seeing
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there; duels taking place, with the bullet holes still in the wall; and a strange stain on the floor which reappears even when the wood is replaced. The people on the stairs heard the door lock behind him and then a shot. They could not get into the Oak Parlour so they broke the door down to find the
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walking headless on the terrace and a weeping lady with a silver ewer seen whenever there is a tragedy in the family. The last death occurred at a fancy dress ball to celebrate the return from honeymoon of Lord Charnley and his new bride. Colonel Monkton was one of several people who stood at the top
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Mr Satterthwaite attends a showing at an art gallery by the rising young artist Frank Bristow. There he sees a painting called "The Dead Harlequin" which portrays a dead figure on a floor, and the same figure looking in through an open window at his own corpse. The man portrayed is Mr Harley Quin and
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Leaving the restaurant, Satterthwaite is still uneasy. He buys a paper for that evening's radio programmes and realises that Gillian West is in great danger. He rushes to her flat and drags her out before the tenor's voice reaches a peak during a performance of "The Shepherd's Song". A stray cat goes
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at Gillian's invitation and has tea with her. To her relief, Eastney has accepted the news with good grace and given her two wedding presents. One is a new radio and the other is an unusual glass sculpture which is topped off by a bubble-like iridescent ball. Eastney has also made a strange request –
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when his path again crosses that of Gillian West and Charlie Burns, and he finds that the two have just become engaged. Gillian is nervous of the effect the news will have on Philip Eastney, and Charlie confides that, in the past, men have lost their heads over his fiancée and done stupid things as a
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and he imagines this blow destroyed her memory at the time. Her avaricious sister used the opportunity to say her elder sister drowned so she might inherit the family money. It is only now that Beatrice's memory is returning, thus persecuting her niece, and then killing her younger sister. The two go
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Soon afterwards, she had a brief affair with a young Englishman who was visiting the island, the result of which was a son. He is now grown up and happy. He is serious about a girl whose parents want to know his antecedents, and she has never told him he is illegitimate. To save him pain and scandal,
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After exchanging pleasantries with the gardener, Satterthwaite makes his way to the cliff edge and soon hears approaching footsteps. It is a young man in his eyes, a man of forty. The man says he expected to be alone. He tells Satterthwaite that he came here the previous night and found someone there
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Satterthwaite arrives with Elizabeth. Rudge arrives with the Countess while Quin brings the casino's croupier Pierre Vaucher. Vaucher tells the story of a jeweller who worked in Paris many years ago who, despite being engaged, fell for a half-starved girl and married her. His family disowned him, and
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Satterthwaite returns to England, meeting Quin in the Arlecchino restaurant. Satterthwaite feels he has no useful evidence, but Quin points out the train smoke that she saw. Trains use the line only at ten minutes to the hour and twenty-eight minutes past; therefore the shot could not have been fired
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and takes the ocean voyage to Canada, and the train to Banff, where he finds her working in a hotel. She speaks of seeing the shape of a giant hand in the sky caused by the smoke of a passing train at the very time she heard the shot. She does tell Satterthwaite that Henry Thompson suggested the post
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where he finds Mr Quin sitting at a table, and tells him the verdict. As Quin has not followed the trial, Satterthwaite relates the evidence. Lady Vivien Barnaby felt trapped in her marriage with her older husband, Sir George Barnaby, a man of Satterthwaite's acquaintance. Satterthwaite describes Sir
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Satterthwaite is held up one night in the village of Kirklington Mallet when his car needs repairs. At the local pub, the "Bells and Motley", he is delighted to find Mr Quin in the coffee room. The stormy weather reminds the landlord of a local story, as it stormed the night that Captain Harwell came
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Returning, they hear two gunshots, and find Mrs Staverton at the privy garden holding a gun and two dead people on the ground – Captain Allenson, shot in the chest, and Mrs Scott, shot in the back. Mrs Staverton says that she arrived in the garden and picked up the discarded gun. While the police are
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Anna dances the role of Columbine while Quin dances as Harlequin. The performance is a success. Satterthwaite recognises by her dancing that Anna is the lost Kharsanova. In the darkness of the garden, she tells Satterthwaite that she gave up dancing because John wanted a wife and she loved John. She
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Quin suggests Satterthwaite take this evidence to Sylvia Dale who has remained loyal to Wylde. Satterthwaite and she take a taxi to Sir George, where she extracts a signed confession from him to bring to the police. She said the police already knew of Louise Bullard's story, which rattled him enough
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game. Wylde came to the house, leaving fingerprints in the room where, at 6:20 pm, Lady Barnaby was killed with a single blast from a shotgun. The servants heard the shot and rushed to the room, finding their dead mistress. They tried contacting the police, but found that the phone was out of order.
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Quin prompts Satterthwaite to assess the news events of the time from a long view. Satterthwaite says crossword puzzles and cat burglars. In France, there were many unsolved thefts, including one of a collection of jewels from a French château. The chief suspects are the Clondinis, a family of three
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lover. The two fled the house but, looking back, saw the image of the cavalier looking at them from an upstairs window. The glass has been replaced many times but the image always returns on the new pane. The Scotts stay in this room, with the offending window panelled over. Satterthwaite shows this
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of 4 May 1930 started by saying, "To call the tales in this collection detective stories would be misleading. For though all of them deal with mystery and some of them with crime, they are, nevertheless, more like fairy tales." The anonymous reviewer described Mr Satterthwaite and Mr Quin and their
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review of 29 May 1930 failed to comment on the merits of the book, confining itself to summarising the relationship between Quin and Satterthwaite and concluding that the latter is helped "to solve old mysteries, sometimes to restore happiness to the unfortunate, and sometimes to see, if not avert,
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Satterthwaite meets Quin on the train home. He sadly admits he failed to prevent Mabelle's death. Quin replies that he did save the two young men from being wrongly accused of the crime, and asks if there are not greater evils than death. Satterthwaite closes his eyes, thinking of Mabelle, and when
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Satterthwaite receives an unexpected guest – Aspasia Glen, the celebrated performer. She wants to buy "The Dead Harlequin". Satterthwaite is pleased when Alix Charnley telephones him part way through their conversation, also wanting to buy the picture. Satterthwaite asks Alix Charnley to come round
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Satterthwaite walks to the cliff top and is not surprised to find Quin there. Quin tells him that the man who drowned in the sea twenty years ago truly loved his wife – almost to the point of madness – and the desire to make amends for past transgressions can sometimes be so strong that a messenger
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The next day Satterthwaite returns to La Paz and finds the Englishwoman there, her appearance transformed with happiness. She and Cosden, reunited after twenty years, are to be married that day by the Consul, and she will introduce her son to his father. She refuses to believe that Cosden will die.
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Cosden leaves and Satterthwaite approaches the villa. Pulling open one of the closed shutters, he sees a troubled woman in traditional Spanish dress looking at him. He stammers an apology which makes the woman realise that he is English, and she calls him back. She, too, is English, and she invites
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They overhear Mrs Staverton telling Richard Scott that he will be sorry, and that jealousy can drive a man to murder. That evening, Mrs Unkerton tells Satterthwaite that she has sent for a glazier to replace the haunted pane of glass. Satterthwaite realises that she senses the tension in the house.
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Capel told the guests on the night of his death that he was about to be engaged. They assumed that it was to Marjorie Dilke. His secretiveness about the engagement makes Conway wonder if the engagement was to someone else, such as a married woman. All agree that Capel's manner that night was like a
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Satterthwaite finds Mabelle's ukulele and strums it. It is out of tune; Doris tunes it, but breaks the string, noticing it is an A-string, one size too large. Satterthwaite suddenly realises that the murder was committed with the original string, and confronts quiet David Keeley in the library. He
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In the morning, the household wakes to the news that Mabelle is dead, found by a maid hanging on the back of her bedroom door. The police arrive. Inspector Winkfield conducts the investigation, an old acquaintance of Satterthwaite. The night before, Madge prompted Mabelle to fetch her ukulele from
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Satterthwaite is uneasy as he leaves Gillian, feeling that the appearance of Quin at Covent Garden must mean that there is unusual business afoot, but he cannot place exactly what is going to happen. Wanting to discuss his fears with Quin, he goes to the Arlecchino restaurant where he met him once
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At the end of the evening Satterthwaite makes his own way to where his chauffeur-driven car is parked when he again sees the three people from the Opera House. Almost immediately a fight breaks out between the two young men and Satterthwaite rescues the girl from the fracas. At her home, she tells
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At Abbot's Mede, Margery tells Satterthwaite that she hears "Give back what is not yours. Give back what you have stolen." She switches on the light, but she is alone. The long time servant Clayton sleeps in the next room now, but she has not heard the voices when Margery does. The night before he
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with Lady Stranleigh, someone he has known since his youth. She is "beautiful, unscrupulous, completely callous, interested solely in herself." She came into her family title of baroness after the deaths of the last Lord Stranleigh's two brothers and his only nephew, the tragic death of her elder
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Satterthwaite is delighted to receive his old friend, Harley Quin. Satterthwaite tells Quin of the relationships he is observing; the Countess, for reasons best known to her, is coming between Franklin Rudge and Elizabeth Martin. The following night at the casino the Countess wears a simple white
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Unkerton reveals that the glazier did visit that morning. Next to the window, they find a small feather that matches one of Mrs Scott's hats. Quin describes the crime – Richard Scott pulled the movable panel back, knowing the house well, and then saw his wife and her lover in the garden. He posed
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Left to their whisky and the fire, the men restart the conversation regarding Capel. There is a sudden knock on the door. It is a stranger; the lights through the stained glass above the door cast a multi-coloured look over his motoring clothes. Mr Harley Quin asks for shelter while his chauffeur
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It is New Year's Eve and a house party is taking place at Royston, the country house of Tom Evesham and his wife, Lady Laura. Among the guests are Mr Satterthwaite, Sir Richard Conway and Alex Portal and his Australian wife of two years, Eleanor. Satterthwaite finds her intriguing on many counts,
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to a thief. The thief was Alec Gerard, a young playwright, who took it from her when she showed it to him at the theatre. Although the jewel was not found on him, he was unable to satisfactorily account for a large sum of money that appeared in his bank account the next day. Mr Quin comes to the
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Satterthwaite sees another of Rudge's party, Elizabeth Martin, who has none of the other woman's sophistication but is not innocent or naïve. She confides in Satterthwaite her misgivings concerning the Countess and Rudge. She leaves, and then Rudge joins Satterthwaite. He is enjoying his tour of
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Quin takes the men through the sequence of events: Capel saw the paragraph in the newspaper reporting that the exhumation order had been given; then he saw a policeman approaching his house. Not knowing that this visit was about the missing dog, he assumed that he was to be arrested, and so shot
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as QUIN followed by LAIDELL. He reverses his view, and calls hostess Madge Keeley to resurrect his invitation to Laidell, another house party in the country. Arriving at Laidell, he learns that Madge is soon to announce her engagement. She quietly points out Roger Graham to him at dinner. David
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Satterthwaite accuses and Alix recognises Miss Glen as Monica Ford who called out Lord Charnley's name that night. The accused woman rushes out of Satterthwaite's house after confessing that she loved Hugo, and helped him with the murder, but he abandoned her soon after and is dead now. Alix is
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Satterthwaite points out the figure seen in fancy dress could have been anyone. The only person who called him "Lord Charnley" was the woman who was allegedly pregnant by him, Monica Ford, in league with Hugo Charnley, hoping to be the Lord himself. A shot fired in the locked room would be just
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of the proceeds of their crime. Mathias and Harwell were never seen together. An examination of the fine items in the house could provide proof, if they matched those stolen in France. Satterthwaite agrees to set the wheels in motion. Mary Jones, serving at the "Bells and Motley", in love with
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The situation looks bad for Mrs Staverton in the eyes of the police. In the middle of the enquiry, Mr Quin arrives. Satterthwaite describes his ability to help people see problems from new angles. Prompted by Quin, Satterthwaite points out the torn earlobe, which leads to a new analysis of the
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Mr Satterthwaite is a dried-up elderly little man who has never known romance or adventure himself. He is a looker-on at life. But he feels an increasing desire to play a part in the drama of other people – especially is he drawn to mysteries of unsolved crime. And here he has a helper – the
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and tells him that he and Gillian removed a dead cat from the flat, i.e. that Eastney's plan failed. The two men part, and a few minutes later a policeman asks Satterthwaite if he also heard what seemed like the sound of a large splash. The police officer says he figures it is another person
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Anthony Cosden introduces himself and tells Satterthwaite of his life; he has been told that he has six months to live. He visited the island about twenty years before, and makes clear he wants to die here by leaping off the cliff. Satterthwaite asks, "You will not do it tonight, to spare me
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and asks him to be the second witness, Clayton being the first. Alice Clayton, her full name, reminds Satterthwaite she is the same maid who, many years earlier, he had kissed in a hotel's passage. He remembers Alice had brown eyes. He tells Margery that the woman she knows as Clayton, with
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Lady Stranleigh writes to thank Margery for the chocolates she sent and tells her that she has been laid low by food poisoning. Margery tells Satterthwaite she did not send her mother chocolates, but neither she nor her mother make the connection that Satterthwaite does, that the mysterious
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arrived, Margery dreamt that a spike was entering her throat and the voice murmured, "You have stolen what is mine. This is death!" Margery screamed and found a mark on her neck—no dream. Satterthwaite speaks with Clayton, a blue-eyed, grey-haired woman who also survived the
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of a flight of stairs and saw Lord Charnley pass below. A woman called out to him but he walked on as if in a daze. He passed through the Terrace Room and into the Oak Parlour that leads off it. Legends attached to the Oak Parlour include one of Charles I hiding in a
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note, her winnings and all she has in the world. Too proud to accept charity, she burnt it in front of his eyes. Vaucher follows her. Rudge realizes he does not understand the Countess and turns his attentions back to Elizabeth. Quin and Satterthwaite are satisfied.
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relieved, coming alive again. The letter to her husband was false. She can tell her son that his father has no stain on his reputation. When the artist prepares to leave, Mr Quin has already slipped away. Frank Bristow may pursue the charming Alix.
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Quin asks about the housemaid who gave evidence at the inquest but not at the trial, and Satterthwaite tells him that she has gone to Canada. Satterthwaite wonders if he should interview her. Satterthwaite tracks the maid, Louise Bullard, to
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rug which was placed there on that night only, and the body then moved into the Oak Parlour. The stains could have been cleaned up by a lady with a jug and basin and if anyone saw her, she would have been taken for the resident ghost.
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another bullet hole in the wall like those created by past duels, and there is a priest hole to hide the person just seen entering the room. Any bloodstain on the floor of the Terrace Room would have been covered by a red
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said, "Mr. Quinn and Mr. Satterthwaite are, to me, new characters, and I should like much more of them. Mrs. Christie always writes intelligently, and I enjoyed these stories as much as any she has written."
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him her name is Gillian West, the intense man is Philip Eastney, and the other is Charlie Burns; and she hopes that Eastney has not hurt Burns. Satterthwaite promises to find out and assuage her fears.
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window to Major Porter from a grassy knoll some distance from the house where the image is clear. Major Porter confides to Satterthwaite that Mrs Staverton ought not to have come to the party.
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and Satterthwaite knows how to handle them. On the train home, Satterthwaite meets Mr Quin. Quin tells him that he will be at the "Bells and Motley" inn where Satterthwaite can call on him.
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shelter to keep Miss Smith part of the group; he will not let her wander off alone. Miss Nunn has cause to empty her bag; from it comes a wooden box that Mr Tomlinson recognises as an
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body with curiously little blood coming from it. Alix, Lord Charnley's widow, was pregnant and when their son was born, he automatically inherited, so no others gained by this death.
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the drawing room, and that is the last that anyone saw her. Gerard Annesley fell asleep in his adjoining room before he heard his wife return, hearing no sounds in the night.
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stunt", thereby referring to the bird as a symbol of love. The name of house in the story – Greenway's House – is possibly derived from the name of Christie's future home,
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for his knowledge of the arts. In the evening Satterthwaite sees two loves in lane, Molly with John Denham. Anna sees them too, and stays with Satterthwaite for support.
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from which her husband had drunk – perhaps to destroy the evidence – had been put on trial and found not guilty, but had then left the country because of the scandal.
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passes the winnings to the Countess. Satterthwaite accepts the croupier's decision. Quin commiserates with him and invites him to a supper party that night at a
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observant man who is able to wrap up each mystery through the careful prodding and apposite questions of Quin, who serves as a catalyst each time the men meet.
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back with his bride. Satterthwaite knows this news story and sees this has brought him here to meet Quin. They will talk over the mystery and solve it.
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through the door to the flat and is found dead – killed by the gasses freed from the glass ball when it shattered as a result of the tenor singing.
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he opens his eyes, Mr Quin has already gone; but there is a bird carved from a blue stone where Quin had been seated, an enchanting piece of art.
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in Canada to her, with its high wages, and she had to leave quickly to take it, as well as refrain from letters to her friends at Deering Hill.
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gown and no jewelry, and a younger woman is rumoured to be the lover of the king of Bosnia. The Countess wagers all she has at the
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fetched, Satterthwaite notices a spot of blood on the earlobe of Mrs Scott and sees that one of her earrings has been torn away.
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gunshots. The first bullet passed through Moira into Allenson, in an embrace. The second bullet hit her ear. The Scotts met in
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relationship to the stories and each other, and then concluded, "The book offers a rare treat for the discriminating reader."
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to Clayton's room but find the woman dead from heart failure. As Satterthwaite says, "Perhaps it is best that way."
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poisoning but the poison was only found after the body had been exhumed. His wife, who had smashed a decanter of
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café called La Caveau, with candle light. Each guest is to bring the first person he sees to the supper party.
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should Lady Stranleigh die. He has asked Margery to marry him but she has refused, being engaged to the local
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suspicion of pushing you?" Cosden agrees. Satterthwaite makes the case for living, but Cosden is resolute.
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can be found. As Satterthwaite leaves, Quin walks back towards the cliff edge, disappearing from view.
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eyes, is her Aunt Beatrice. She has a scar where she was struck on the head during the sinking of the
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to confess before the sentence on Wylde was carried out.
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later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven
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A Talent to Deceive – an appreciation of Agatha Christie
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magazine above were part of a six-story sequence titled
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result. The next Thursday, Satterthwaite goes back to
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1759:: 20 November 1926 (Volume XIX, Number 6) issue of
1749:: 13 November 1926 (Volume XIX, Number 5) issue of
1791:: 27 August 1927 (Volume XXVI, Number 4) issue of
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253:The house is said to be haunted by the ghost of a
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1956:– Revised edition (p. 200). Fontana Books, 1990;
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1975:The Happy Prince, and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
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27:Short story collection by Agatha Christie (1930)
2890:Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories
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505:Mrs Lloyd. After speaking to the medium's
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2897:Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories
1867:Detective Fiction – the collector's guide
1710:Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories
1405:, Paperback, (Penguin number 931), 250 pp
1014:, the final story in the 1934 collection
850:sequence of poems in her 1925 collection
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1395:(New York), Paperback, (Dell number 570
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2911:While the Light Lasts and Other Stories
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195:(7/6) and the US edition at $ 2.00.
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1889:American Tribute to Agatha Christie
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3135:Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks
2848:Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
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1704:Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
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1408:1965, Fontana Books (Imprint of
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3198:Agatha and the Midnight Murders
2855:The Under Dog and Other Stories
2241:The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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875:The Under Dog and Other Stories
179:, first published in the UK by
3190:Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
3182:Agatha and the Truth of Murder
1985:– via www.gutenberg.org.
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1901:The English Catalogue of Books
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865:The Affair at the Victory Ball
820:from the 16th century Italian
770:The New York Times Book Review
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3253:Agatha Christie Award (Japan)
3128:The Mousetrap and Other Plays
2290:The Mystery of the Blue Train
1913:The Times Literary Supplement
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1542:The Bird with the Broken Wing
1205:Vivian Baron ... Derek Cappel
1027:The Bird with the Broken Wing
953:The Bird with the Broken Wing
646:The Bird with the Broken Wing
448:She will make sure he lives.
257:who was killed by his wife's
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2869:Double Sin and Other Stories
2647:By the Pricking of My Thumbs
2332:Murder on the Orient Express
2158:Tommy and Tuppence Beresford
1536:First publication of stories
1433:Edition, Hardcover, 457 pp;
36:Harley Quin (disambiguation)
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2971:Witness for the Prosecution
2276:The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
1999:. (p. 437). Collins, 1977;
1865:John Cooper and B.A. Pyke.
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3100:Come, Tell Me How You Live
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2339:Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
2304:The Murder at the Vicarage
2178:Chief Inspector James Japp
2163:Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent
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103:William Collins & Sons
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1043:Six poems by Henrik Ibsen
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796:Bird with the Broken Wing
761:Times Literary Supplement
286:At the "Bells and Motley"
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2416:And Then There Were None
1803:Detective Fiction Weekly
1782:Detective Story Magazine
1747:The Soul of the Croupier
1603:The Soul of the Croupier
1214:The Passing of Mr. Quinn
1208:Kate Gurney ... Landlady
1160:The Passing of Mr. Quinn
944:The Soul of the Croupier
878:(1951) and in the UK in
806:References and allusions
364:The Soul of the Croupier
3068:Butter in a Lordly Dish
2834:The Labours of Hercules
2744:A Daughter's a Daughter
2535:They Do It with Mirrors
2451:The Body in the Library
2297:The Seven Dials Mystery
2255:The Murder on the Links
2173:Captain Arthur Hastings
1737:At the Bells and Motley
1645:magazine in April 1927.
1635:magazine in March 1927.
1589:At the Bells and Motley
1565:The Shadow on the Glass
1299:Problem at Pollensa Bay
1254:and again performed by
1246:and again performed by
1219:The (unpublished) play
1184:... Mrs Eleanor Appleby
1058:, first printed in the
962:The Shadow on the Glass
927:The Shadow on the Glass
683:Mr Satterthwaite is in
465:sister Beatrice in the
237:The Shadow on the Glass
44:The Mysterious Mr Quin
2943:Appointment with Death
2806:The Listerdale Mystery
2785:The Mysterious Mr Quin
2675:Elephants Can Remember
2661:Passenger to Frankfurt
2479:Death Comes as the End
2395:Appointment with Death
2269:The Secret of Chimneys
2081:'s "Afternoon Reading"
2066:The Passing of Mr Quin
2058:The Mysterious Mr Quin
1943:, 25 April 1930 (p. 8)
1915:, 29 May 1930 (p. 461)
1838:
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1490:BBC Audiobooks America
1486:The Mysterious Mr Quin
1017:The Listerdale Mystery
972:, on the banks on the
909:The Mysterious Mr Quin
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832:The Coming of Mr. Quin
185:Dodd, Mead and Company
172:The Mysterious Mr Quin
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2792:The Thirteen Problems
2591:Cat Among the Pigeons
2514:A Murder Is Announced
2367:Murder in Mesopotamia
2311:The Sittaford Mystery
2153:Superintendent Battle
1856:, 13 April 1930, p. 9
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1721:The Coming of Mr Quin
1655:magazine in May 1927.
1629:The Voice in the Dark
1591:: First published as
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1549:The Coming of Mr Quin
1419:, Paperback, 256 pp;
1322:The Harlequin Tea Set
1305:The Harlequin Tea Set
1290:The Harlequin Tea Set
1270:In Agatha Christie's
1221:Someone at the Window
1196:... Professor Appleby
1163:in 1928, directed by
1155:The Coming of Mr Quin
918:The Coming of Mr Quin
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456:The Voice in the Dark
208:The Coming of Mr Quin
2999:The Unexpected Guest
2883:Poirot's Early Cases
2730:Absent in the Spring
2577:4.50 from Paddington
2563:Hickory Dickory Dock
2549:A Pocket Full of Rye
2521:They Came to Baghdad
2248:The Secret Adversary
2168:Sir Henry Clithering
1691:The Magic of Mr Quin
1685:The five stories in
1669:The Man From the Sea
1595:in issue 249 of the
1581:in issue 245 of the
1555:in issue 229 of the
1488:released in 2006 by
1467:Cleveland Publishing
1412:), Paperback, 255 pp
1118:The Man from the Sea
881:Poirot's Early Cases
765:impending tragedy".
687:with the Duchess of
603:committing suicide.
553:Cavalleria Rusticana
419:The Man from the Sea
3107:Star Over Bethlehem
2827:The Regatta Mystery
2771:Poirot Investigates
2723:Unfinished Portrait
2619:A Caribbean Mystery
2584:Ordeal by Innocence
2556:Destination Unknown
2353:Death in the Clouds
1699:The Love Detectives
1575:The Sign in the Sky
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1381:Poirot Investigates
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1318:The Love Detectives
1294:The Love Detectives
1194:Clifford Heatherley
1138:The Sign in the Sky
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585:The Sign in the Sky
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2528:Mrs McGinty's Dead
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2437:Evil Under the Sun
2374:Cards on the Table
2360:The A.B.C. Murders
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1995:Christie, Agatha.
1799:The Dead Harlequin
1731:Mr Quinn Passes By
1659:The Dead Harlequin
1429:1977, Ulverscroft
1369:Lawrence E. Spivak
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1225:The Dead Harlequin
1190:... Vera, the Maid
1178:... Dr Alec Portal
1143:Taken at the Flood
1098:The Dead Harlequin
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2388:Death on the Nile
2346:Three Act Tragedy
2325:Lord Edgware Dies
1952:Barnard, Robert.
1777:The Face of Helen
1726:Munsey's Magazine
1707:and in the UK in
1695:At the Crossroads
1674:Britannia and Eve
1639:The Face of Helen
1599:in November 1925.
1579:A Sign in the Sky
1522:Geoffrey Matthews
1475:Partners in Crime
1456:978-0-00-735464-1
1386:Partners in Crime
1350:978-0-00-717115-6
1333:Dead Man's Mirror
1327:Three Act Tragedy
1285:Dead Man's Mirror
1279:Three Act Tragedy
1260:BBC Radio 4 Extra
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3185:(2018 film)
3161:(1979 film)
3085:Other books
3047:Wasp's Nest
2763:collections
2423:Sad Cypress
2198:Parker Pyne
2137:Adaptations
2079:BBC Radio 4
1619:World's End
1482:Hugh Fraser
1431:large-print
1378:along with
1252:BBC Radio 4
1244:BBC Radio 4
1232:BBC Radio 4
1200:Mary Brough
1150:Adaptations
1105:Ruth Draper
1085:Oscar Wilde
1068:(1925) and
1056:Dark Sheila
966:turtle dove
622:priest hole
583:before (in
571:Kew Gardens
497:, with the
475:New Zealand
370:Monte Carlo
3286:Categories
3145:Depictions
3037:Radio and
2957:The Hollow
2751:The Burden
2708:Westmacott
2633:Third Girl
2612:The Clocks
2493:The Hollow
2146:Characters
1841:References
1829:dustjacket
1393:Dell Books
1116:The story
1102:monologist
974:River Dart
739:Bolsheviks
722:masquerade
705:Indian Box
589:poison gas
328:Old Bailey
315:laundering
223:strychnine
3312:Harlequin
2217:Locations
1713:in 1991.
1504:in 2005 (
1417:Pan Books
1398:), 256 pp
1367:c. 1930,
1146:(1948).
1011:Swan Song
1001:Pagliacci
894:Harlequin
844:slapstick
818:Harlequin
735:ballerina
617:Charles I
559:Pagliacci
467:shipwreck
438:stillborn
259:roundhead
189:shillings
99:Publisher
3271:Category
3027:Chimneys
3020:Akhnaton
2706:As Mary
2132:Universe
1981:28 March
1202:... Cook
1122:Tenerife
1039:En Svane
1031:The Swan
393:bohemian
389:croupier
384:table.
382:roulette
308:acrobats
300:fox hunt
255:cavalier
193:sixpence
81:Language
3217:Related
2992:Verdict
2689:Curtain
2668:Nemesis
2444:N or M?
2068:at IMDb
2027:24 July
1124:in the
1074:(1973).
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777:In the
685:Corsica
657:ukulele
635:Bokhara
576:Chelsea
514:estates
469:of the
84:English
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2233:Novels
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518:curate
503:medium
495:séance
487:Uralia
471:Uralia
462:Cannes
340:bridge
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61:Author
3114:Poems
2921:Plays
1929:p. 25
1825:blurb
1340:(UK,
1071:Poems
859:Poems
830:. In
689:Leith
412:franc
408:spill
349:Banff
276:Cairo
248:Egypt
135:Pages
89:Genre
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