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    The Water Bus: A Short Story
    The Water Bus: A Short Story
    The Water Bus: A Short Story
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    The Water Bus: A Short Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    With Star Over Bethlehem, the beloved Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie shines in a totally unexpected way, offering readers a wondrous collection of poems and holiday short stories.

    A retelling of the Christmas Story in a way you’ve never heard it before. . . . The fable of a donkey who carries a mother and child safely to Egypt. . . . The tale of a widow who dislikes people until she meets a stranger. . . .

    From the most popular writer of all time comes a treasured collection of short stories and poems celebrating the holiday season.

    This special edition also contains a wealth of Agatha Christie rarities—not only all the stories, poems, and illustrations from her long out-of-print book Star over Bethlehem (1965) but also a reproduction of all her rare poetry from the two collections The Road of Dreams (1924) and Poems (1973).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateDec 3, 2013
    ISBN9780062303219
    The Water Bus: 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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      The Water Bus - Agatha Christie

      Contents

      The Water Bus

      About the Author

      The Agatha Christie Collection

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      The Water Bus

      Mrs. Hargreaves didn’t like people.

      She tried to, because she was a woman of high principle and a religious woman, and she knew very well that one ought to love one’s fellow creatures. But she didn’t find it easy—and sometimes she found it downright impossible.

      All that she could do was, as you might say, to go through the motions. She sent cheques for a little more than she could afford to reputable charities. She sat on committees for worthy objects, and even attended public meetings for abolishing injustices, which was really more effort than anything else, because, of course, it meant close proximity to human bodies, and she hated to be touched. She was able easily to obey the admonitions posted up in public transport, such as: Don’t travel in the rush hour; because to go in trains and buses, enveloped tightly in a sweltering crowd of humanity, was definitely her idea of hell

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