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Philomel Cottage

Agatha Christie

Publisher: MB Cooltura

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Summary

Alix falls in love with a perfect stranger: Gerald Martin; and despite the opposition of her friend Dick Windyford, she marries him. The couple decides to buy and live at Philomel Cottage; a nice cabin lost in the country. Suddenly, Alix begins to think that her husband is a murderer who wants to keep her money and desperately must find the way to escape without arousing his suspicions. Will she make it?

Available since: 08/20/2023.

Print length: 44 pages.

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