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    The Unbreakable Alibi: A Tommy & Tuppence Story
    The Unbreakable Alibi: A Tommy & Tuppence Story
    The Unbreakable Alibi: A Tommy & Tuppence Story
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    The Unbreakable Alibi: A Tommy & Tuppence Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Previously published in the print anthology Partners in Crime.

    A woman wants to prove that she was in two different places at the same time! Tommy and Tuppence are on the case.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateAug 20, 2013
    ISBN9780062300577
    The Unbreakable Alibi: A Tommy & Tuppence Story
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    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

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      The Unbreakable Alibi - Agatha Christie

      Contents

      The Unbreakable Alibi

      About the Author

      The Agatha Christie Collection

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      THE UNBREAKABLE ALIBI

      Tommy and Tuppence were busy sorting correspondence. Tuppence gave an exclamation and handed a letter across to Tommy.

      A new client, she said importantly.

      Ha! said Tommy. What do we deduce from this letter, Watson? Nothing much, except the somewhat obvious fact that Mr.—er—Montgomery Jones is not one of the world’s best spellers, thereby proving that he has been expensively educated.

      Montgomery Jones? said Tuppence. Now what do I know about a Montgomery Jones? Oh, yes, I have got it now. I think Janet St. Vincent mentioned him. His mother was Lady Aileen Montgomery, very crusty and high-church, with gold crosses and things, and she married a man called Jones who is immensely rich.

      In fact the same old story, said Tommy. Let me see, what time does this Mr. M. J. wish to see us? Ah, eleven thirty.

      At eleven thirty precisely, a very tall young man with an amiable and ingenuous countenance entered the outer office and addressed himself to Albert, the office boy.

      Look here—I say. Can I see Mr.—er—Blunt?

      Have you an appointment, sir? said Albert.

      I don’t quite know. Yes, I suppose I have. What I mean is, I wrote a letter—

      What name, sir?

      Mr. Montgomery Jones.

      I will take your name in to Mr. Blunt.

      He returned after a brief interval.

      Will you wait a few minutes please, sir. Mr. Blunt is engaged on a very important conference at present.

      Oh—er—yes—certainly, said Mr. Montgomery Jones.

      Having, he hoped, impressed his client sufficiently Tommy rang the buzzer on his desk, and Mr. Montgomery Jones was ushered into the inner office by Albert.

      Tommy rose to

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