Agatha Christie - The Moving Finger by Moving Finger (Uc) (Pg) (1943)

Author:Moving Finger (Uc) (Pg) (1943) [Finger, Moving]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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AGATHA CHRISTIE

He paused.

“Now I’ll tell you something: That letter that came to Mrs. Symmington that afternoon didn’t come by post. It had a used stamp affixed to it, and the postmark faked quite convincingly in lamp black, so that it would seem to have been delivered by the postman with the afternoon letters. But actually it had not been through the post. You see what that means ?”

“It means,” I said slowly, “that it was left by hand, pushed through the letter box some time before the afternoon post was delivered, so that it should be among the other letters.”

“Exactly. The afternoon post comes around about a quarter to four. My theory is this: The girl was in the pantry looking through the window (it’s masked by shrubs but you can see through them quite well) watching out for her young man to turn up and apologize.”

I said, “And she saw whoever it was delivered that note ?” “That’s my guess, Mr. Burton. I may be wrong, of course.”

“I don’t think you are …. It’s simplemand convincing—and it means that Agnes knew who the anonymous letter writer

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