The Blood-Stained Pavement by Agatha Christie

Previously published in the print anthology The Thirteen Problems

Joyce Lempiere tells the Tuesday Night Club of an incident that occurred five years ago when she was vacationing at a small inn on the Cornish coast. She was painting a picture of the front of the inn, including details of wet bathing suits drying on the balcony of Denis and Margery Dacre, when she realised she had included blood stains on the pavement. A few days later Margery is found dead, having drowned, and the Club are called to solve the mystery.

About the author:
Agatha Christie is the best-selling author of all time. She wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six romance novels under a pseudonym. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. She is the creator of two of the most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple - and author of "The Mousetrap", the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre.

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