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By the Pricking
of My Thumbs
A Tommy and Tuppence Mystery
Dedication
This book is dedicated to the many readers in this and other countries who write to me asking: “What has happened to Tommy and Tuppence? What are they doing now?” My best wishes to you all, and I hope you will enjoy meeting Tommy and Tuppence again, years older, but with spirit unquenched!
Epigraph
By the pricking of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes.
                             —Macbeth
Contents
       Title Page
       Dedication
       Epigraph
Book 1
       Sunny Ridge
  1   Aunt Ada
  2   Was it your Poor Child?
  3   A Funeral
  4   Picture of a House
  5   Disappearance of an Old Lady
  6   Tuppence on the Trail
Book 2
       The House on the Canal
  7   The Friendly Witch
  8   Sutton Chancellor
  9   A Morning in Market Basing
Book 3
       Missing—A Wife
10   A Conference—and After
11   Bond Street and Dr. Murray
12   Tommy Meets an Old Friend
13   Albert on Clues
Book 4
       Here is a Church and here is the Steeple
       Open the Doors and there are the People
14   Exercise in Thinking
15   Evening at the Vicarage
16   The Morning After
17   Mrs. Lancaster
       About the Author
       The Agatha Christie Collection
       Related Products
       Copyright
       About the Publisher
BOOK 1
SUNNY RIDGE
One
AUNT ADA
Mr. and Mrs. Beresford were sitting at the breakfast table. They were an ordinary couple. Hundreds of elderly couples just like them were having breakfast all over England at that particular moment. It was an ordinary sort of day too, the kind of day that you get five days out of seven. It looked as though it might rain but wasn’t quite sure of it.
Mr. Beresford had once had red hair. There were traces of the red still, but most of it had gone that sandy-cum-grey colour that red-headed people so often arrive at in middle life. Mrs. Beresford had once had black hair, a vigorous curling mop of it. Now the black was adulterated with streaks of grey laid on, apparently at random. It made a rather pleasant effect. Mrs. Beresford had once thought of dyeing her hair, but in the end she had decided that she liked herself better as nature had made her. She had decided instead to try a new shade of lipstick so as to cheer herself up.
An elderly couple having breakfast together. A pleasant couple, but nothing remarkable about them. So an onlooker would have said. If the onlooker had been young he or she would have added, “Oh yes, quite pleasant, but deadly dul ............

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