Motive v. Opportunity: A Miss Marple Short Story
Agatha Christie
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Whilst at a meeting at the Tuesday Night Club, attorney Mr Petherick relates an incident involving the late Simon Clode, a wealthy client. Obsessed by his granddaughter’s death, despite the presence of his young niece and nephew, Clode turns to spiritualist Eurydice Spragg to contact his granddaughter in the afterlife. Clode then decided to write a new will, leaving Eurydice as the benefactor 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…
MOTIVE V. OPPORTUNITY
A Short Story
by Agatha Christie
Copyright
This short story is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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‘Motive v. Opportunity’ was first published in Royal Magazine, April 1928, and in the USA as ‘Where’s the Catch?’ in Detective Story Magazine, 30 June 1928.
This ePub edition published April 2012.
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EPub Edition © 2012 ISBN: 9780007486649
Version: 2017-04-18
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