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    A Pot of Tea: A Tommy & Tuppence Story
    A Pot of Tea: A Tommy & Tuppence Story
    A Pot of Tea: A Tommy & Tuppence Story
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    A Pot of Tea: A Tommy & Tuppence Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Previously published in the print anthology Partners in Crime.

    The Beresfords meet their first client, a man whose secret affair with a shopgirl goes terribly awry when she disappears. Tommy assures him they will find her within twenty-four hours, though it is by no means certain that they will meet this impossible deadline.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateAug 6, 2013
    ISBN9780062298348
    A Pot of Tea: 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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      A Pot of Tea - Agatha Christie

      Contents

      A Pot of Tea

      About the Author

      The Agatha Christie Collection

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      A POT OF TEA

      Mr. and Mrs. Beresford took possession of the offices of the International Detective Agency a few days later. They were on the second floor of a somewhat dilapidated building in Bloomsbury. In the small outer office, Albert relinquished the role of a Long Island butler, and took up that of office boy, a part which he played to perfection. A paper bag of sweets, inky hands, and a tousled head was his conception of the character.

      From the outer office, two doors led into inner offices. On one door was painted the legend Clerks. On the other Private. Behind the latter was a small comfortable room furnished with an immense business-like desk, a lot of artistically labelled files, all empty, and some solid leather-seated chairs. Behind the desk sat the pseudo Mr. Blunt trying to look as though he had run a Detective Agency all his

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