The Mysterious Affair

all over England, would blazon out the news in staring headlines:

“MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY IN ESSEX”

“WEALTHY LADY POISONED”

There would be pictures of Styles, snap-shots of “The family leaving the Inquest”—the village photographer had not been idle! All the things that one had read a hundred times—things that happen to other people, not to oneself. And now, in this house, a murder had been committed. In front of us were “the detectives


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all over England, would blazon out the news in staring headlines:

“MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY IN ESSEX”

“WEALTHY LADY POISONED”

There would be pictures of Styles, snap-shots of “The family leaving the Inquest”—the village photographer had not been idle! All the things that one had read a hundred times—things that happen to other people, not to oneself. And now, in this house, a murder had been committed. In front of us were “the detectives


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