Title: Hickory Dickory Death
Author(s): Agatha Christie
Publisher(s): Pocket Books
Pages: 204
Year: 1983
Format: EPUB
Language: English
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Len burst out aggressively, «What the hell do you think I wanted to poison the kid for? I$prime;d nothing against her.» «I$prime;ve not suggested that you did want to poison her.» «She took the stuff herself. She must have taken it herself. There$prime;s no other explanation.» «We might think so, If it weren$prime;t for that faked suicide note.» «Faked my hat! She wrote it, didn$prime;t she?» «She wrote it as part of a letter, early that morning.» «Well-she could have torn a bit out and used it as a suicide note.» «Come now, Mr. Bateson. If you wanted to write a suicide note, you$prime;d write one. You wouldn$prime;t take a letter you$prime;d written to somebody else and carefully tear out one particular phrase.» «I might do. People do all sorts of funny things.» Z, «Tn that case, where is the rest of the letter?» «How should I know? That$prime;s your business, not mine.» «I$prime;m making it my business. You$prime;d be well advised, Mr. Bateson, to answer my questions civilly.» «Well, what do you want to know? I didn$prime;t kill the girl, and I$prime;d no motive for killing her.» «You liked her?» Len said less aggressively: «I liked her very much. She was a nice kid. A bit dumb, but nice.» «You believed her when she owned up to having committed the thefts which had been worrying everyone for some time past?» «Well, I believed her, of course, since she said so. But I must say it seemed odd.» «You didn$prime;t think it was a likely thing for her to do?» «Well, no. Not really.» Leonard$prime;s truculence had subsided now that he was no longer on the defensive and was giving his mind to a problem which obviously intrigued him.
«She didn$prime;t seem to be the type of a kleptomaniac, if you know what I mean,» he said. «Nor a thief either.» «And you can$prime;t think of any other reason for her having done what she did?» «Other reason? What other reason could there be?» «Well, she might have wanted to arouse the interest of Mr. Colin Mcationabb.» «That$prime;s a bit far-fetched, isn$prime;t it?» «But it did arouse his interest.» «Yes, of course it did. Old Colin$prime;s absolutely dead keen on any kind of psychological abnormality.» «Well, then. If Celia Austin knew that.