The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl: A Short Story
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A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories.
Mystery writer Anthony Eastwood is lured to the crime scene of a faked murder, where two individuals masquerading as police officers arrest him and charge him for murder. As the phony police officers escort Mr. Eastwood home, the true goal of the masquerade becomes apparent.
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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The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl - Agatha Christie
The Mystery of the
Spanish Shawl
A Short Story
by Agatha Christie
An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Contents
Cover
Title Page
The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl
About the Author
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Copyright
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The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl
‘The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl’ was first published as ‘The Mystery of the Second Cucumber’ in The Novel Magazine, August 1924. It appears in the UK as ‘Mr. Eastwood’s Adventure’.
Mr Eastwood looked at the ceiling. Then he looked down at the floor. From the floor his gaze travelled slowly up the right-hand wall. Then, with a sudden stern effort, he focused his gaze once more upon the typewriter before him.
The virgin white of the sheet of paper was defaced by a title written in capital letters.
‘THE MYSTERY OF THE SECOND CUCUMBER,’ so it ran. A pleasing title. Anthony Eastwood felt that anyone reading that title would be at once intrigued and arrested by it. ‘The Mystery of the Second Cucumber,’ they would say. ‘What can that be about? A cucumber? The second cucumber? I must certainly read that story.’ And they would be thrilled and charmed by the consummate ease with which this master of detective fiction had woven an exciting plot round this simple vegetable.
That was all very well. Anthony Eastwood knew as well as anyone what the story ought to be like – the bother was that somehow or other he couldn’t get on with it. The two essentials for a story were a title and a plot – the rest was mere spade-work, sometimes the title led to a plot all by itself, as it were, and then all was plain sailing – but in this case the title continued to adorn the top of the page, and not