Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (by Hercule Poirot) (1920).

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

— Agatha Christie on Homicide

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Agatha Christie

About Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English author of detective fiction.