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      Third Girl

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by

      Collins 1966

      Agatha Christie® Poirot® Third Girl™

      Copyright © 1966 Agatha Christie Limited. All rights reserved.

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      Cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2015

      Title lettering by Ghost Design

      Cover photograph © Morgan Norman/Gallery Stock

      Agatha Christie asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008129606

      Ebook Edition © September 2015 ISBN: 9780007422869

      Version: 2017-04-13

      To Nora Blackborow

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       CHAPTER 1

       CHAPTER 2

       CHAPTER 3

       CHAPTER 4

       CHAPTER 5

       CHAPTER 6

       CHAPTER 7

      

       CHAPTER 8

      

       CHAPTER 9

      

       CHAPTER 10

      

       CHAPTER 11

      

       CHAPTER 12

      

       CHAPTER 13

      

       CHAPTER 14

      

       CHAPTER 15

      

       CHAPTER 16

      

       CHAPTER 17

      

       CHAPTER 18

      

       CHAPTER 19

      

       CHAPTER 20

      

       CHAPTER 21

      

       CHAPTER 22

      

       CHAPTER 23

      

       CHAPTER 24

      

       CHAPTER 25

      

       Also by Agatha Christie

      

       About the Publisher

       CHAPTER 1

      Hercule Poirot was sitting at the breakfast table. At his right hand was a steaming cup of chocolate. He had always had a sweet tooth. To accompany the chocolate was a brioche. It went agreeably with chocolate. He nodded his approval. This was from the fourth shop he had tried. It was a Danish pâtisserie but infinitely superior to the so-called French one nearby. That had been nothing less than a fraud.

      He was satisfied gastronomically. His stomach was at peace. His mind also was at peace, perhaps somewhat too much so. He had finished his Magnum Opus, an analysis of great writers of detective fiction. He had dared to speak scathingly of Edgar Allan Poe,

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