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    The Matter of the Ambassador's Boots: A Tommy and Tuppence Mystery
    The Matter of the Ambassador's Boots: A Tommy and Tuppence Mystery
    The Matter of the Ambassador's Boots: A Tommy and Tuppence Mystery
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    The Matter of the Ambassador's Boots: A Tommy and Tuppence Mystery

    By Agatha Christie

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    An absolutly charming Agatha Christie mystery featuring sleuths Tommy and Tuppence.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndura Publishing
    Release dateJan 18, 2020
    ISBN9788835360698
    The Matter of the Ambassador's Boots: A Tommy and Tuppence Mystery
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    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 Matter of the Ambassador's Boots - Agatha Christie

      TOMMY AND TUPPENCE

      A DETECTIVE SERIES BY AGATHA CHRISTIE

      No. VIII-- THE MATTER OF THE AMBASSADOR'S BOOTS

      I AM not sure, Mr. Wilmott, that I quite understand?

      Randolph Wilmott, United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, cleared his throat and recommenced speaking in his own deliberate manner.

      I have come to you, Mr. Blunt- By the way, it is Mr. Blunt himself to whom I am speaking, is it not?

      Certainly, said Tommy. I am Theodore Blunt, the head of the firm.

      I always prefer to deal with heads of departments, said Mr. Wilmott. It is more satisfactory in every way. As I was about to say, Mr. Blunt, this business gets my goat. There's nothing in it to trouble Scotland Yard about- I'm not a penny the worse in any way, and it's probably all due to a simple mistake. But, all the same, I don't see just how that mistake arose. There's nothing criminal in it, I daresay, but I'd like just to get the tiling straightened out It makes me mad not to see the why and wherefore of a thing.

      Quite so, said Tommy. "Now the position is this. You arrived by the liner Nomadic a week ago. In some way your kit- bag and the kit-bag of another gentleman, Mr. Ralph Westerham, whose initials are the same as yours, got mixed up. You took Mr. Westerham's kit-bag, and he took yours. Mr. Westerham discovered

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