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    The Affair at the Bungalow: A Miss Marple Story
    The Affair at the Bungalow: A Miss Marple Story
    The Affair at the Bungalow: A Miss Marple Story
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    The Affair at the Bungalow: A Miss Marple Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Previously published in the print anthology The Thirteen Problems.

    A beautiful actress tells a mysterious tale, but Miss Marple has her suspicions about the story’s truth.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 11, 2013
    ISBN9780062298096
    The Affair at the Bungalow: A Miss Marple Story
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    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies. She is the author of eighty crime novels and short-story collections, nineteen plays and six novels written under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.

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      The Affair at the Bungalow - Agatha Christie

      Contents

      The Affair at the Bungalow

      About the Author

      The Agatha Christie Collection

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      The Affair at the Bungalow

      ‘I’ve thought of something,’ said Jane Helier.

      Her beautiful face was lit up with the confident smile of a child expecting approbation. It was a smile such as moved audiences nightly in London, and which had made the fortunes of photographers.

      ‘It happened,’ she went on carefully, ‘to a friend of mine.’

      Everyone made encouraging but slightly hypocritical noises. Colonel Bantry, Mrs Bantry, Sir Henry Clithering, Dr Lloyd and old Miss Marple were one and all convinced that Jane’s ‘friend’ was Jane herself. She would have been quite incapable of remembering or taking an interest in anything affecting anyone else.

      ‘My friend,’ went on Jane, ‘(I won’t mention her name) was an actress—a very well-known actress.’

      No one expressed surprise. Sir Henry Clithering thought to himself: ‘Now I wonder how many sentences it will be before she forgets to keep up the fiction, and says I instead of She?’

      ‘My friend was on tour in the provinces—this was a year or two ago. I suppose I’d better not give the name of the place. It was a riverside town not very far from London. I’ll call it—’

      She paused, her brows perplexed in thought. The invention of even a simple name appeared to be too much for her. Sir Henry came to the rescue.

      ‘Shall we call it Riverbury?’ he suggested gravely.

      ‘Oh, yes, that would do splendidly. Riverbury, I’ll remember that. Well, as I say, this—my friend—was at Riverbury

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