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    In a Glass Darkly: A Short Story
    In a Glass Darkly: A Short Story
    In a Glass Darkly: A Short Story
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    In a Glass Darkly: A Short Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Previously published in the print anthology The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories.

    The narrator is startled by a vision in his mirror: He sees a man with a scarred neck strangling a beautiful blonde. He later meets the woman in his vision, Sylvia, and notes her fiancé's scarred neck. He tells her of his premonition, and the engagement is broken off. But is that all there is to it?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 17, 2013
    ISBN9780062302175
    In a Glass Darkly: 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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      Short but satisfying twisted story. A classic Christie in tone.

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    In a Glass Darkly - Agatha Christie

    Contents

    In a Glass Darkly

    About the Author

    The Agatha Christie Collection

    Copyright

    About the Publisher

    IN A GLASS DARKLY

    I’ve no explanation of this story. I’ve no theories about the why and wherefore of it. It’s just a thing—that happened.

    All the same, I sometimes wonder how things would have gone if I’d noticed at the time just that one essential detail that I never appreciated until so many years afterwards. If I had noticed it—well, I suppose the course of three lives would have been entirely altered. Somehow—that’s a very frightening thought.

    For the beginning of it all, I’ve got to go back to the summer of 1914—just before the war—when I went down to Badgeworthy with Neil Carslake. Neil was, I suppose, about my best friend. I’d known his brother Alan too,

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