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    The Ambassador's Boots: A Tommy & Tuppence Story
    The Ambassador's Boots: A Tommy & Tuppence Story
    The Ambassador's Boots: A Tommy & Tuppence Story
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    The Ambassador's Boots: A Tommy & Tuppence Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Previously published in the print anthology Partners in Crime.

    The monogrammed kit bag of the American ambassador to England, Randolph Wilmot, is switched with Senator Ralph Westerman’s. Wilmot hires Tommy and Tuppence to find out why. When the senator’s valet shows up at the embassy to exchange the bags, they discover that the senator has never heard of this valet, or of any confusion between kit bags. Who is the valet, and why did he need the bag?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateAug 27, 2013
    ISBN9780062300591
    The Ambassador's Boots: A Tommy & Tuppence 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 in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

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      The Ambassador's Boots - Agatha Christie

      Contents

      The Ambassador’s Boots

      About the Author

      The Agatha Christie Collection

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      THE AMBASSADOR’S BOOTS

      "My dear fellow, my dear fellow," said Tuppence, and waved a heavily buttered muffin.

      Tommy looked at her for a minute or two, then a broad grin spread over his face and he murmured.

      We do have to be so very careful.

      That’s right, said Tuppence, delighted. You guessed. I am the famous Dr. Fortune and you are Superintendent Bell.

      Why are you being Reginald Fortune?

      Well, really because I feel like a lot of hot butter.

      That is the pleasant side of it, said Tommy. But there is another. You will have to examine horribly smashed faces and very extra dead bodies a good deal.

      In answer Tuppence threw across a letter. Tommy’s eyebrows rose in astonishment.

      Randolph Wilmott, the American Ambassador. I wonder what he wants.

      We shall know tomorrow at eleven o’clock.

      Punctually to the time named, Mr. Randolph Wilmott, United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James, was ushered into Mr. Blunt’s office. He cleared his throat and commenced speaking in a deliberate and characteristic manner.

      I have come to you, Mr. Blunt—By the way, it is Mr. Blunt himself to whom I am speaking, is it not?

      Certainly, said Tommy. I am Theodore Blunt, the head of the firm.

      I always prefer to deal with heads of departments, said Mr. Wilmott. "It is more satisfactory in every way. As I was about to say, Mr. Blunt, this business gets my goat. There’s nothing in it to trouble Scotland Yard about—I’m not a penny the worse in any way, and

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