Crooked House читать онлайн

Скачать книгу Crooked House

6lib.ru - Электронная Библиотека
Название книги: Crooked House
Автор(ы): Agatha Christie
Жанр: Детектив
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Crooked-House-199023.html

 To Punkie, who likes an orthodox detective story, murder, inquest, and suspicion falling on everyone in turn!

One
I first came to know Sophia Leonides in Egypt towards the end of the war. She held a fairly high administrative post in one of the Foreign Office departments out there.
I knew her first in an official capacity, and I soon appreciated the efficiency that had brought her to the position she held, in spite of her youth (she was at that time just twenty two). 4 Besides being extremely easy to look at, she had a clear mind and a dry sense of humour that I found very delightful. We became friends. She was a person whom it was extraordinarily easy to talk to and we enjoyed our dinners and occasional dances very much.
All this I knew; it was not until I was ordered East at the close of the European war that I knew something else - that I loved Sophia and that I wanted to marry her.
We were dining at Shepheard's when I made this discovery. It did not come to me with any shock of surprise, but more as the re
1 2 3 4 5 6 ... 264 265
Навигация с клавиатуры: следующая страница - или пробел, предыдущая -
Тёмный фон Светлый фон

Загрузка

Загрузка ...