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4.A detective story

One day, some time before the war,

Agatha was talking with her sister, Madge, about detective stories.

They both enjoyed reading this kind of book very much.

‘I'd like to try and write a detective story myself,’ said Agatha.

‘You couldn't do it,’ said Madge. ‘They're very difficult to do. I've thought about it.’

‘Well, one day I'm going to try,’ said Agatha.

The idea stayed in Agatha's head, and she wanted to show Madge that she could do it.

And when, years later, she went to work in the hospital dispensary, she again began to think about writing a detective story.

‘There must be a murder in it, of course,’ she thought. The questions ran busily around inside her head.

‘But what kind of murder? A death by poisoning? Who will die? Who will the murderer be?

‘When? How? Why? Where? And what about a detective?’

There were some Belgian people living in Torquay...