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Agatha Christie 16 free books by Agatha Christie. 16 you can read right here.
Born 1890 in Torquay · Died in Winterbrook
writer, novelist, poet, playwright, screenwriter · United Kingdom · associated with Knox's Commandments
Notable works: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Sittaford Mystery, Peril at End House, Lord Edgware Dies, Murder on the Orient Express
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Murder at the Vicarage
Partners in Crime
Poirot Investigates
The Big Four
The Hunter's Lodge Case
The Man in the Brown Suit
The Missing Will
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Murder on the Links
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Mysterious Mr. Quin
The Mystery of the Blue Train
The Plymouth Express Affair
The Secret Adversary
The Secret of Chimneys
The Seven Dials Mystery
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From Project Gutenberg e-text #863 (public domain in the USA).
“You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
— Spoken by a character · V. “IT ISN’T STRYCHNINE, IS IT?”
Read in context → Copy Share Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.
— Spoken by a character · V. “IT ISN’T STRYCHNINE, IS IT?”
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From Project Gutenberg e-text #69087 (public domain in the USA).
Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to the seeker after it.
— Poirot · XII. ROUND THE TABLE
Read in context → Copy Share Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together—and they call the result intuition.
— Spoken by a character · XIII. THE GOOSE QUILL
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From Project Gutenberg e-text #72824 (public domain in the USA).
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
— Poirot · 27. Interview with Mirelle
Read in context → Copy Share A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
— Spoken by a character · 30. Miss Viner Gives Judgment
Read in context → Copy Share From Project Gutenberg e-text #1155 (public domain in the USA).
Never tell all you know--not even to the person you know best.
— Spoken by a character · XV. TUPPENCE RECEIVES A PROPOSAL
Read in context → Copy Share That’s the curious part about speaking the truth. No one does believe it.
— Tuppence · III. A SET BACK
Read in context → Copy Share From Project Gutenberg e-text #61168 (public domain in the USA).
A diary is useful for recording the idiosyncrasies of other people—but not one’s own.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XIII
Read in context → Copy Share I had the firm conviction that, if I went about looking for adventure, adventure would meet me halfway. It is a theory of mine that one always gets what one wants.
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