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    Sing a Song of Sixpence: A Short Story
    Sing a Song of Sixpence: A Short Story
    Sing a Song of Sixpence: A Short Story
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    Sing a Song of Sixpence: A Short Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Previously published in the print anthology The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories.

    Retired Scotland Yard detective Sir Edward Palliser is called upon by Magdalen Vaughan to help solve the murder of her wealthy, eccentric aunt, Miss Lily Crabtree. The authorities believe only members of the household could have committed the crime, and this suspicion is tearing the family apart. Who really killed Lily's aunt?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9780062302212
    Sing a Song of Sixpence: A Short 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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      Sing a Song of Sixpence - Agatha Christie

      Contents

      Sing a Song of Sixpence

      About the Author

      The Agatha Christie Collection

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE

      Sir Edward Palliser, K.C., lived at No. 9 Queen Anne’s Close. Queen Anne’s Close is a cul-de-sac. In the very heart of Westminster it manages to have a peaceful old-world atmosphere far removed from the turmoil of the twentieth century. It suited Sir Edward Palliser admirably.

      Sir Edward had been one of the most eminent criminal barristers of his day and now that he no longer practised at the Bar he had amused himself by amassing a very fine criminological library. He was also the author of a volume of Reminiscences of Eminent Criminals.

      On this particular evening Sir Edward was sitting in front of his library fire sipping some very excellent black coffee, and shaking his head over a volume of Lombroso. Such ingenious theories and so completely out of date.

      The door opened almost noiselessly and his well-trained manservant approached over the thick pile carpet, and murmured discreetly:

      A young lady wishes to see you, sir.

      A young lady?

      Sir Edward was surprised. Here was something quite out of the usual course of events. Then he reflected that it might be his niece, Ethel—but no, in that case Armour would have said so.

      He inquired cautiously.

      The lady did not give her name?

      No, sir, but she said she was quite sure you would wish to see her.

      Show her in, said Sir Edward Palliser. He felt pleasurably intrigued.

      A tall, dark girl of close on thirty, wearing a black coat and skirt, well cut, and a little black hat, came to Sir Edward with outstretched hand and a look of eager recognition on her face. Armour withdrew, closing the door noiselessly behind him.

      "Sir Edward—you do know

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