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    Little grey cells turn to verse

    Sep 03, 2020 3 minutes

    Have you ever read Agatha Christie, marvelling at the intricacy of her plots, wondering what it is that Miss Marple is knitting, engaging with the grooming of that impossibly waxed moustache? If so, it’s time to exert the little grey cells and write a poem to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of her first book’s publication.

    was published in the United States in 1920 and in Britain in early 1921 by The Bodley Head, having been rejected by Hodder

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