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Agatha Christie 
Ordeal by Innocence 
 
To Billy Collinswith affection and gratitude 
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me.
I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that Thou wilt not hold me innocent.
Job
Contents 
Cover
 
Title Page
 
Dedication
 
Epigraph 
 
Chapter One
 
Chapter Two
 
Chapter Three
 
Chapter Four
 
Chapter Five
 
Chapter Six
 
Chapter Seven
 
Chapter Eight
 
Chapter Nine
 
Chapter Ten
 
Chapter Eleven
 
Chapter Twelve
 
Chapter Thirteen
 
Chapter Fourteen
 
Chapter Fifteen
 
Chapter Sixteen
 
Chapter Seventeen
 
Chapter Eighteen
 
Chapter Nineteen
 
Chapter Twenty
 
Chapter Twenty-one
 
Chapter Twenty-two
 
Chapter Twenty-three
 
Chapter Twenty-four
 
About the Author
 
Other Books by Agatha Christie
 
Copyright
 
About the Publisher
 
One 
I 
It was dusk when he came to the Ferry.
He could have been there much earlier. The truth was, he had put it off as long as he could.
First his luncheon with friends in Redquay; the light desultory conversation, the interchange of gossip about mutual friends—all that had meant only that he was inwardly shrinking from what he had to do. His friends had invited him to stay on for tea and he had accepted. But at last the time had come when he knew that he could put things off no longer.
The car he had hired was waiting. He said good-bye and left to drive the seven miles along the crowded coast road and then inland down the wooded lane that ended at the little stone quay on the river.
There was a large bell there which his driver rang vigorously to summon the ferry from the far side.
“You won’t be wanting me to wait, sir?”
“No,” said Arthur Calgary. “I’ve ordered a car to meet me over there in an hour’s time—to take me to Drymouth.”
The man received his fare and tip. He said, peering across the river in the gloom:
“Ferry’s coming now, sir.”
With a soft-spoken good night he reversed the car and drove away up the hill. Arthur Calgary was left alone waiting on the quayside. Alone with his thoughts and his apprehension of what was in front of him. How wild the scenery was here, he thought. One could fancy oneself on a Scottish loch, far from anywhere. And yet, only a few miles away, were the hotels, the shops, the cocktail bars and the crowds of Redquay. He reflected, not for the first time, on the extraordinary contrasts of the English landscape.
He heard the soft plash of the oars as the ferry boat drew in to the side of the little quay. Arthur Calgary walked down the sloping ramp and got in ............

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