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Poirot arrives, and rearranges the tea cups before Gerda returns from the kitchen. He suspects the cornered and suspicious Gerda would murder
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1212:The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
754:– Revised edition (p. 195). Fontana Books, 1990.
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684:(Second ed.). Dragonby Press. p. 15.
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1625:Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun
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279:(1932) and also played the lead in
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1989:The Mystery of the Blue Train
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1975:The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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592:Edition, Hardcover, 431 pp
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2101:Hercule Poirot's Christmas
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2003:The Murder at the Vicarage
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2115:And Then There Were None
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658:Marcum, J S (May 2007).
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2443:A Daughter's a Daughter
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1996:The Seven Dials Mystery
1954:The Murder on the Links
1872:Captain Arthur Hastings
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913:The Murder on the Links
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160:The Labours of Hercules
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2505:The Listerdale Mystery
2484:The Mysterious Mr Quin
2374:Elephants Can Remember
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1968:The Secret of Chimneys
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2248:A Pocket Full of Rye
2220:They Came to Baghdad
1947:The Secret Adversary
1867:Sir Henry Clithering
1485:The Alphabet Murders
1459:A Haunting in Venice
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1295:The Monogram Murders
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2526:The Regatta Mystery
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2052:Death in the Clouds
1196:The Regatta Mystery
1180:Poirot Investigates
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2199:Taken at the Flood
2136:Evil Under the Sun
2073:Cards on the Table
2059:The A.B.C. Murders
2017:Peril at End House
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