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    Greenshaw's Folly: A Miss Marple Story
    Greenshaw's Folly: A Miss Marple Story
    Greenshaw's Folly: A Miss Marple Story
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    Greenshaw's Folly: A Miss Marple Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot both make appearances in Agatha Christie’s Double Sin and Other Stories, a sterling collection of short mystery fiction that offers double the suspense, surprise, and fun.

    In one of London’s most elegant shops, a decorative doll dressed in green velvet adopts some rather human, and rather sinister, traits.

    A country gentleman is questioned about a murder yet to be committed.

    While summoning spirits, a medium is drawn closer to the world of the dead than she ever dared imagine possible.

    In a small country church, a dying man’s last word becomes both an elegy and a clue to a crime.

    These chilling stories, and more, cleverly wrought by master Agatha Christie and solved by the inimitable Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 25, 2013
    ISBN9780062298508
    Greenshaw's Folly: A Miss Marple Story
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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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      Fun little short story, but not remarkable or different to other Miss Marple mysteries.

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    Greenshaw's Folly - Agatha Christie

    Contents

    Greenshaw’s Folly

    About the Author

    The Agatha Christie Collection

    Copyright

    About the Publisher

    Greenshaw’s Folly

    The two men rounded the corner of the shrubbery.

    Well, there you are, said Raymond West. That’s it.

    Horace Bindler took a deep, appreciative breath.

    But my dear, he cried, how wonderful. His voice rose in a high screech of ’sthetic delight, then deepened in reverent awe. It’s unbelievable. Out of this world! A period piece of the best.

    I thought you’d like it, said Raymond West, complacently.

    Like it? My dear— Words failed Horace. He unbuckled the strap of his camera and got busy. This will be one of the gems of my collection, he said happily. I do think, don’t you, that it’s rather amusing to have a collection of monstrosities? The idea came to me one night seven years ago in my bath. My last real gem was in the Campo Santo at Genoa, but I really think this beats it. What’s it called?

    I haven’t the least idea, said Raymond.

    I suppose it’s got a name?

    It must have. But the fact is that it’s never referred to round here as anything but Greenshaw’s Folly.

    Greenshaw being the man who built it?

    Yes. In eighteen-sixty or seventy or thereabouts. The local success story of the time. Barefoot boy who had risen to immense prosperity. Local opinion is divided as to why he built this house, whether it was sheer exuberance of wealth or whether it was done to impress his creditors. If the latter, it didn’t impress them. He either went bankrupt or the next thing to it. Hence the name, Greenshaw’s Folly.

    Horace’s camera clicked. There, he said in a satisfied voice. Remind me to show you No. 310 in my collection. A really incredible marble mantelpiece in the Italian manner. He added, looking at the house, I can’t conceive of how Mr. Greenshaw thought of it all.

    Rather obvious in some ways, said Raymond. He had visited the châteaux of the Loire, don’t you think? Those turrets. And then, rather unfortunately, he seems to have travelled in the Orient. The influence of the Taj Mahal is unmistakable. I rather like the Moorish wing, he added, and the traces of a Venetian palace.

    One wonders how he ever got hold of an architect to carry out these ideas.

    Raymond shrugged his shoulders.

    No difficulty about that, I expect, he said. "Probably the architect retired with a good income

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