title: The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
author:  Agatha Christie 
description: From the unforgettable Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, two crime solvers who rival the near-peerless Sherlock Holmes, to the post-climactic jolts of <i>And Then There Were None</i> and <i>The Witness for the Prosecution,</i> Agatha Christie is in a class by herself. (Mary Jane Clark, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author)
zlib_text: THE WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION AND OTHER STORIES (1948)
  
  Agatha Christie
   
  
  The Witness for the Prosecution
  
  The Red Signal
  
  The Fourth Man
  S.O.S.
  Where There’s a Will
  The Mystery of the Blue Jar
  
  Sing a Song of Sixpence
  The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl
  
  Philomel Cottage
  
  Accident
  
  The Second Gong
   
  
  THE WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION
   
  Mr Mayherne adjusted his pince-nez and cleared his throat with a little dry-as-dust cough that was
  wholly typical of him. Then he looked again at the man opposite him, the man charged with willful
  murder.
  Mr Mayherne was a small man, precise in manner, neatly, not to say foppishly dressed, with a pair of
  very shrewd and piercing gray eyes. By no means a fool. Indeed, as a solicitor, Mr Mayherne’s
  reputation stood very high. His voice, when he spoke to his client, was dry but not unsympathetic.
  “I must impress upon you again that you are in very grave danger, and that the utmost frankness is
  necessary.”
  Leonard Vole, who had been staring in a dazed fashion