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.
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  The Listerdale Mystery and Other Stories 
  Agatha Christie 
  1934 
   
   
  
   
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  The Listerdale Mystery 
  Philomel Cottage 
  The Girl in the Train 
  Sing a Song of Sixpence 
  The Manhood of Edward Robinson 
  Accident 
  Jane in Search of a Job 
  A Fruitful Sunday 
  Mr Eastwood's Adventure 
  The Golden Ball 
  The Rajah's Emerald 
  Swan Song 
   
   
  
   
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  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 