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conventional a way of acting?’

fortifying himself for the ordeal which was about to descend upon him.

‘It would be extremely tedious,’ Poirot agreed.

able to demolish them in the name of sanity, logic, order and method.

reviving their never-ending contro versy about the real culprit in the Canning Road Municipal

meretricious charms of a plastic pail which overturned rather too easily.

There were two adolescent boys

Surreptitiously removing her shoes and still quietly champing at her apple, Mrs oliver lowered herself once more on to the settee and surveyed the room full of people critically.

Joyce, a sturdy thirteen-year-old

‘Because we’ve abolished the eleven-plus some time ago.’