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Meaning of "but it is all of a piece" in "The Murder on the Links"
I'm reading The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie. In chapter 21, "Hercule Poirot on the case", Poirot explains why Giraud has bad luck with the hair he found in the dagger. He says:
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What would an A.B.C. mean, in London around 1920?
I've just finished reading The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie (freely/legally available to read online), and the term A.B.C. came up in a couple of places which puzzled me:
First of all, he must ...
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What is Poirot saying about the feather pen in "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"?
Poirot held up the feather pen, and Kent reached for it.
"It is for your drugs, isn't it? You dropped it in the summerhouse at Fernly Park last Friday night."
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"Doing the Countess's little woolly lamb to perfection" in "The Seven Dials Mystery"
I'm reading Agatha Christie's The Seven Dials Mystery. I came across this passage where Jimmy is talking to Miss Wade about Bill, and he says this:
He's doing the Countess's little woolly lamb to ...
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What is the meaning of a sentence from Agatha Christie (*Murder of Roger Ackroyd*)?
The sentence is from a paragraph (Murder of Roger Ackroyd) as below;
“Did Poirot ask you any more questions?” I inquired.
“Only about the patients you had that morning.”
“The patients?” I demanded, ...
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Did Poirot fabricate a fingerprint in "The ABC Murders"?
"I just can't believe it," said Meagan Barnard. "Could it be true?"
"It does explain why our murderer had two personalities," I said. "It's great that you got Clarke'...
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Definition of "Victorian vandal"
I'm reading Agatha Christie's book "Dumb witness", in which there is a passage after Poirot and Hastings have their lunch and head to the church.
Though an attractive specimen of what the ...
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What does "Ideal boiler" mean in Christie's After the Funeral?
In the book After the funeral by Agatha Christie, there is a passage when the Dr informs Susan of poison to Miss Gilchrist.
During their search for the wedding cake, the Dr asks Susan where the ...
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Meaning of "get it taken out of them" in "After the Funeral"
In the novel After the Funeral by Agatha Christie, the lawyer Mr Entwhistle visits Susan after her Aunt Cora's death.
“Miss Gilchrist is quite a sensible woman, I should say. Besides,” added the ...
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What is the meaning of "The first rocket flamed to Heaven"?
From Agatha Christie's 'Peril at End House', Chapter 7 (emphasis mine):
Presently we all moved out into the garden to a place overlooking the sea and the harbour. A few chairs had been placed there ...
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What does "One fancied things sometimes—fancied a fellow was looking at you queerly" mean from And Then There Were None?
From And Then There Were None:
Well, he’d enjoy a chat about old times. He’d had a fancy lately that fellows were rather fighting shy of him. All owing to that damned rumour! By God, it was pretty ...
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What does "her face was innocent of makeup" mean?
I am reading Agatha Christie's Peril at End House. Can anyone help me understand what "her face was innocent of make" means in the following paragraph?
It was, I think, her appearance of ...
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What does "ongtray" mean?
In "The Bird with a Broken Wing," part of Agatha Christie's story collection, The Mysterious Mr Quin, Inspector Winkfield tells Mr Satterthwaite:
Must find out what terms they were on. That’s ...
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What does Agatha Christie mean with "in a telegraphic style"?
Bold part of this passage from The Mysterious Affair at Styles.
Miss Howard shook hands with a hearty, almost painful, grip. I had an
impression of very blue eyes in a sunburnt face. She was a
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What is the meaning of this paragraph from Philip Lombard's introduction in "And Then There Were None"?
I was reading this paragraph in Agatha Christie's mystery novel And Then There Were None, from Chapter One and the character introduction of Philip Lombard:
By Jove, he'd sailed pretty near the wind ...
