The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger: An Agatha Christie Short Story. Agatha Christie

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      Tuppence inclined her head gracefully, but continued to scrutinise the stranger narrowly through her downcast eyelashes. She was wondering how long he had been standing in the doorway, and how much he had seen and heard. It did not escape her observation that even while he was talking to Tommy, his eyes kept coming back to the blue paper in her hand.

      Tommy’s voice, sharp with a warning note, recalled her to the needs of the moment.

      ‘Miss Robinson, please, take notes. Now, sir, will you kindly state the matter on which you wish to have my advice?’

      Tuppence reached for her pad and pencil.

      The big man began in rather a harsh voice.

      ‘My name is Bower. Dr Charles Bower. I live in Hampstead, where I have a practice. I have come to you, Mr Blunt, because several rather strange occurrences have happened lately.’

      ‘Yes, Dr Bower?’

      ‘Twice in the course of the last week I have been summoned by telephone to an urgent case – in each case to find that the summons has been a fake. The first time I thought a practical joke had been played upon me, but on my return the second time I found that some of my private papers had been displaced and disarranged, and now I believe that the same thing had happened the first time. I made an exhaustive search and came to the conclusion that my whole desk had been thoroughly ransacked, and the various papers replaced hurriedly.’

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