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    The Actress: A Short Story
    The Actress: A Short Story
    The Actress: A Short Story
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    The Actress: A Short Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Previously published in the print anthology The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories.

    Jake Levitt can’t believe his luck when, one evening at the theatre, he recognizes the lead actress as Nancy Taylor, a girl he knows a lot about. A story of blackmail and murder ensues!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 19, 2013
    ISBN9780062302816
    The Actress: A Short 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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      Ahh this exactly the kind of story I expect from Agatha Christie. It was such a delight to read this.

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    The Actress - Agatha Christie

    Contents

    The Actress

    About the Author

    The Agatha Christie Collection

    Copyright

    About the Publisher

    THE ACTRESS

    The shabby man in the fourth row of the pit leant forward and stared incredulously at the stage. His shifty eyes narrowed furtively.

    Nancy Taylor! he muttered. By the Lord, little Nancy Taylor!

    His glance dropped to the programme in his hand. One name was printed in slightly larger type than the rest.

    Olga Stormer! So that’s what she calls herself. Fancy yourself a star, don’t you, my lady? And you must be making a pretty little pot of money, too. Quite forgotten your name was ever Nancy Taylor, I daresay. I wonder now—I wonder now what you’d say if Jake Levitt should remind you of the fact?

    The curtain fell on the close of the first act. Hearty applause filled the auditorium. Olga Stormer,

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