title: The Listerdale Mystery (Agatha Christie Collection)
author:  Agatha Christie 
description: A selection of mysteries, some light-hearted, some romantic, some very deadly! Twelve tantalizing cases! the curious disappearance of Lord Listerdale; a newlywed's fear of her ex-fiance; a strange encounter on a train; a domestic murder investigation; a wild man's sudden personality change; a retired inspector's hunt for a murderess; a young woman's impersonation of a duchess; a necklace hidden in a basket of cherries; a mystery writer's arrest for murder; an astonishing marriage proposal; a soprano's hatred for a baritone; the case of the rajah's emerald. All have one thing in common: the skilful hand of Agatha Christie.
zlib_text: The Listerdale Mystery
  Mrs. St. Vincent was adding up figures. Once or twice she sighed, and her hand stole to her aching
  forehead. She had always disliked arithmetic. It was unfortunate that nowadays her life should seem
  to be composed entirely of one particular kind of sum, the ceaseless adding together of small
  necessary items of expenditure making a total that never failed to surprise and alarm her. Surely it
  couldn't come to that! She went back over the figures. She had made a trifling error in the pence, but
  otherwise the figures were correct.
  Mrs. St. Vincent sighed again. Her headache by now was very bad indeed. She looked up as the door
  opened and her daughter Barbara came into the room. Barbara St. Vincent was a very pretty girl, she
  had her mother's delicate features, and the same proud turn of the head, but her eyes were dark instead
  of blue, and she had a different mouth, a sulky red mouth not without attraction.
  "Oh, Mother!" she cried. "Still juggling with those horrid o