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    A Fairy in the Flat: A Tommy & Tuppence Story
    A Fairy in the Flat: A Tommy & Tuppence Story
    A Fairy in the Flat: A Tommy & Tuppence Story
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    A Fairy in the Flat: A Tommy & Tuppence Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Previously published in the print anthology Partners in Crime.

    Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are called to duty at an international detective agency. On assignment, they are told to be wary of the number sixteen. If they see it in writing or hear it in conversation with a stranger, that means they are close to finding the spy ring they seek.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateAug 6, 2013
    ISBN9780062298331
    A Fairy in the Flat: A Tommy & Tuppence Story
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    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

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      Wull, what the heck? That wasn't even a story. What happened to the tail end of it? There was a dang fairy and pending detective work, and then there I was, left hanging and fairy-less. I will have to go buy a hat, and if you knew how awful I look in hats, you would understand how desperately upset I am.

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    A Fairy in the Flat - Agatha Christie

    Contents

    A Fairy in the Flat

    About the Author

    The Agatha Christie Collection

    Copyright

    About the Publisher

    A FAIRY IN THE FLAT

    Mrs. Thomas Beresford shifted her position on the divan and looked gloomily out of the window of the flat. The prospect was not an extended one, consisting solely of a small block of flats on the other side of the road. Mrs. Beresford sighed and then yawned.

    I wish, she said, something would happen.

    Her husband looked up reprovingly.

    Be careful, Tuppence, this craving for vulgar sensation alarms me.

    Tuppence sighed and closed her eyes dreamily.

    So Tommy and Tuppence were married, she chanted, "and

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