The Four Suspects: A Miss Marple Story
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Previously published in the print anthology The Thirteen Problems.
A doctor who helped bring about the downfall of a secret German organization is convinced that the members will seek revenge
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.
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Contents
The Four Suspects
About the Author
The Agatha Christie Collection
Copyright
About the Publisher
The Four Suspects
The conversation hovered round undiscovered and unpunished crimes. Everyone in turn vouchsafed their opinion: Colonel Bantry, his plump amiable wife, Jane Helier, Dr Lloyd, and even old Miss Marple. The one person who did not speak was the one best fitted in most people’s opinion to do so. Sir Henry Clithering, ex-Commissioner of Scotland Yard, sat silent, twisting his moustache—or rather stroking it—and half smiling, as though at some inward thought that amused him.
‘Sir Henry,’ said Mrs Bantry at last. ‘If you don’t say something I shall scream. Are there a lot of crimes that go unpunished, or are there not?’
‘You’re thinking of newspaper headlines, Mrs Bantry. SCOTLAND YARD AT FAULT AGAIN. And a list of unsolved mysteries to follow.’
‘Which really, I suppose, form a very small percentage of the whole?’ said Dr Lloyd.
‘Yes; that is so. The hundreds of crimes that are solved and the perpetrators punished are seldom heralded and sung. But that isn’t quite the point at issue, is it? When you talk of undiscovered crimes and unsolved crimes, you are talking of two different things. In the first category come all the crimes that Scotland Yard never hears about, the crimes that no one even knows have been committed.’
‘But I suppose there aren’t very many of those?’ said Mrs Bantry.
‘Aren’t there?’
‘Sir Henry! You don’t mean there are?’
‘I should think,’ said Miss Marple thoughtfully, ‘that there must be a very large number.’
The charming old lady,