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    The Lamp: A Short Story
    The Lamp: A Short Story
    The Lamp: A Short Story
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    The Lamp: A Short Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Previously published in the print anthology The Golden Ball and Other Stories.

    Thirty years ago, a house was inhabited by a man and his young son. One day the man traveled to London, was recognized as a criminal, and shot himself. What ever happened to the boy?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 3, 2013
    ISBN9780062300645
    The Lamp: 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 Lamp - Agatha Christie

      Contents

      The Lamp

      About the Author

      The Agatha Christie Collection

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      THE LAMP

      It was undoubtedly an old house. The whole square was old, with that disapproving dignified old age often met with in a cathedral town. But No. 19 gave the impression of an elder among elders; it had a veritable patriarchal solemnity; it towered greyest of the grey, haughtiest of the haughty, chillest of the chill. Austere, forbidding, and stamped with that particular desolation attaching to all houses that have been long untenanted, it reigned above the other dwellings.

      In any other town it would have been freely labelled haunted, but Weyminster was averse from ghosts and considered them hardly respectable except at the appanage of a county family. So No. 19 was never alluded to as a haunted house; but nevertheless it remained, year after year,

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