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    Promotion in the Highest: A Holiday Story
    Promotion in the Highest: A Holiday Story
    Promotion in the Highest: A Holiday Story
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    Promotion in the Highest: A Holiday 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 10, 2013
    ISBN9780062303226
    Promotion in the Highest: A Holiday 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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      Promotion in the Highest - Agatha Christie

      Contents

      Promotion in the Highest

      About the Author

      The Agatha Christie Collection

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      Promotion in the Highest

      They were walking down the hill from the little stone church on the hillside.

      It was very early in the morning, the hour just before dawn. There was no one about to see them as they went through the village, though one or two sleepers sighed and stirred in their sleep. The only human being who saw them that morning was Jacob Narracott, as he grunted and sat up in the ditch. He had collapsed there soon after he came out of the Bel and Dragon last night.

      He sat up and rubbed his eyes, not quite believing what he saw. He staggered to his feet and shambled off in the direction of his cottage, made uneasy by the trick his eyes had played him. At the crossroads he met George Palk, the village constable, on his beat.

      "You’m late getting home, Jacob.

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