“She came in with coffee and biscuits at half-past eleven with her mouth pursed up very prunes and prisms, and would hardly speak to me.”

—  Agatha Christie, book Surprise! Surprise!

Surprise! Surprise! (1965)

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English mystery and detective writer 1890–1976

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