The Unbreakable Alibi: A Tommy & Tuppence Story
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Previously published in the print anthology Partners in Crime.
A woman wants to prove that she was in two different places at the same time! Tommy and Tuppence are on the case.
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.
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The Unbreakable Alibi
About the Author
The Agatha Christie Collection
Copyright
About the Publisher
THE UNBREAKABLE ALIBI
Tommy and Tuppence were busy sorting correspondence. Tuppence gave an exclamation and handed a letter across to Tommy.
A new client,
she said importantly.
Ha!
said Tommy. What do we deduce from this letter, Watson? Nothing much, except the somewhat obvious fact that Mr.—er—Montgomery Jones is not one of the world’s best spellers, thereby proving that he has been expensively educated.
Montgomery Jones?
said Tuppence. Now what do I know about a Montgomery Jones? Oh, yes, I have got it now. I think Janet St. Vincent mentioned him. His mother was Lady Aileen Montgomery, very crusty and high-church, with gold crosses and things, and she married a man called Jones who is immensely rich.
In fact the same old story,
said Tommy. Let me see, what time does this Mr. M. J. wish to see us? Ah, eleven thirty.
At eleven thirty precisely, a very tall young man with an amiable and ingenuous countenance entered the outer office and addressed himself to Albert, the office boy.
Look here—I say. Can I see Mr.—er—Blunt?
Have you an appointment, sir?
said Albert.
I don’t quite know. Yes, I suppose I have. What I mean is, I wrote a letter—
What name, sir?
Mr. Montgomery Jones.
I will take your name in to Mr. Blunt.
He returned after a brief interval.
Will you wait a few minutes please, sir. Mr. Blunt is engaged on a very important conference at present.
Oh—er—yes—certainly,
said Mr. Montgomery Jones.
Having, he hoped, impressed his client sufficiently Tommy rang the buzzer on his desk, and Mr. Montgomery Jones was ushered into the inner office by Albert.
Tommy rose to