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The Herb of Death

A Miss Marple Short Story

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The Herb of Death

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
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A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.

Around the dinner table, Mrs Bantry recounts the tale of a dinner where everyone became ill and one young lady died from poisoning, after foxglove leaves had been mixed in with the sage and fed to everyone. The group decide that this mixed up stuffing was no accident and play twenty questions to deduce the killer…

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‘The plots are so good that one marvels … most of them would have made a full length thriller.’ Daily Mirror
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