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Loading... Motive v. Opportunity [short story]by Agatha Christie
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Belongs to SeriesIs contained inAt Bertram's Hotel [and] Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie (indirect) Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie (indirect) Agatha Christie Crime Collection: Hallowe'en Party, Passenger to Frankfurt, The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie (indirect) The Tuesday Club Murders [and] Crooked House by Agatha Christie (indirect)
A classic Agatha Christie short story, featuring Miss Marple, from the collection Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories. At a meeting of the Tuesday Night Club, attorney Mr. Petherick relates an incident involving the late Simon Clode, a wealthy client. Obsessed by his granddaughter's death, Clode turned to spiritualist Eurydice Spragg to contact her in the afterlife, and then decided to write a new will leaving Eurydice as the benefactor and excluding his family. To everyone's surprise, when the envelope containing the will is opened, the paper is blank. The Tuesday Night Club goes on the case... No library descriptions found.
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This is my favorite of these short Marple stories so far! The story is quite short -- only 14 pages long in the old hardback edition of Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories (Putnam, 1985) that I'm reading, but it has a classic Golden Age mystery feel to it. The drama surrounding a death-bed will, a group of relatives and a possible charlatan hanging around hoping for an inheritance, and one sneaky culprit's shenanigans. So much fun to read!
This story was first published in The Royal Magazine in April 1928 (UK) and in Detective Story Magazine in June of that year (US) under the title "Where's the Catch?'' All of the stories were gathered in the short story collection The Thirteen Problems, published in 1932.
On to the next story -- Miss Marple's turn -- The Thumb Mark of St Peter. I'm enjoying these stories immensely! Agatha Christie has been my favorite author since I was 9 years old, but until now I never read any of the short stories she wrote. I'm reading through her writings in publication order just for the sheer joy of it! ( )