Motive v. Opportunity: A Miss Marple Short Story
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A classic Agatha Christie short story, featuring Miss Marple, from the collection Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories.
At a meeting of the Tuesday Night Club, attorney Mr. Petherick relates an incident involving the late Simon Clode, a wealthy client. Obsessed by his granddaughter’s death, Clode turned to spiritualist Eurydice Spragg to contact her in the afterlife, and then decided to write a new will leaving Eurydice as the benefactor and excluding his family. To everyone’s surprise, when the envelope containing the will is opened, the paper is blank. The Tuesday Night Club goes on the case…
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.
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Motive v. Opportunity - Agatha Christie
Motive v. Opportunity
A Miss Marple Short Story
by Agatha Christie
An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Motive v. Opportunity
About the Author
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Copyright
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Motive v. Opportunity
‘Motive v. Opportunity’ was first published in The Royal Magazine, April 1928, and in the USA as ‘Where’s the Catch?’ in Detective Story Magazine, 30 June 1928.
Mr Petherick cleared his throat rather more importantly than usual.
‘I am afraid my little problem will seem rather tame to you all,’ he said apologetically, ‘after the sensational stories we have been hearing. There is no bloodshed in mine, but it seems to me an interesting and rather ingenious little problem, and fortunately I am in the position to know the right answer to it.’
‘It isn’t terribly legal, is it?’ asked Joyce Lemprière. ‘I mean points of law and lots of Barnaby v Skinner in the year 1881, and things like that.’
Mr Petherick beamed appreciatively at her over his eyeglasses.
‘No, no, my dear young lady. You need have no fears on that score. The story I am about to tell is a perfectly simple and straightforward one and can be followed by any layman.’
‘No legal quibbles, now,’ said Miss Marple, shaking a knitting needle at him.
‘Certainly not,’ said Mr Petherick.
‘Ah well, I am not so sure, but let’s hear the story.’
‘It concerns a former client of mine. I will call him Mr Clode – Simon Clode. He was a man of considerable wealth and