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THE LANDLADY ROALD DAHL Billy Weaver had travelled down from white façades were cracked and blotchy from London on the slow afternoon train, with a neglect.  https://www.highcpmrevenuenetwork.com/hrkdcp8n?key=8c75b8228ab66507b2b567b0677738fa at Swindon on the way, and by the Suddenly, in a downstairs window that was time he got to Bath it was about nine brilliantly illuminated by a street-lamp not six o’clock in the evening and the moon was yards away, Billy caught sight of a printed coming up out of a clear starry sky over notice propped up against the glass in one of the houses opposite the station entrance. the upper panes. It said BED AND But the air was deadly cold and the wind BREAKFAST. There was a vase of yellow was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks. chrysanthemums, tall and beautiful, standing “Excuse me,” he said, “but is there a just underneath the notice. fairly cheap hotel not too far away from 60 He stopped walking. He moved a bit closer. here?” ...

            The Mysterious Affair at Styles     By     Agatha Christie   www.freeclassicebooks.com             Contents   CHAPTER I. I GO TO STYLES ..... 3 CHAPTER II. THE 16TH AND 17TH OF JULY ....................... 16 CHAPTER III. THE NIGHT OF THE TRAGEDY .............................. 25 CHAPTER IV. POIROT INVESTIGATES ...................... 32 CHAPTER V. "IT ISN'T STRYCHNINE, IS IT?" ............. 53 CHAPTER VI. THE INQUEST ... 83 CHAPTER VII. POIROT PAYS HIS DEBTS ................................... 97 CHAPTER VIII. FRESH SUSPICIONS ........................ 109 CHAPTER IX. DR. BAUERSTEIN ........................................... 126 CHAPTER X. THE ARREST .... 142 CHAPTER XI. THE CASE FOR THE PROSECUTION .................... 159 CHAPTER XII. THE LAST LINK ........................................... 179 CHA...