A Fruitful Sunday: A Short Story

By Agatha Christie

Previously published in the print anthology The Golden Ball and Other Stories.

Edward Palgrove has saved up to buy a small car, which he and his fiancée, Dorothy Pratt, are both proud of. But neither one is prepared for the journey it will take them on.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Nov 5, 2013
• ISBN: 9780062302755

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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A Fruitful Sunday

About the Author

The Agatha Christie Collection

Copyright

About the Publisher

A FRUITFUL SUNDAY

Well, really, I call this too delightful, said Miss Dorothy Pratt for the fourth time. How I wish the old cat could see me now. She and her Janes!"

The old cat thus scathingly alluded to was Miss Pratt’s highly estimable employer, Mrs. Mackenzie Jones, who had strong views upon the Christian names suitable for parlourmaids and had repudiated Dorothy in favour of Miss Pratt’s despised second name of Jane.

Miss Pratt’s companion did not reply at once—for the best of reasons. When you have just purchased a Baby Austin, fourth hand, for the sum of twenty pounds, and are taking it out for the second time only, your whole attention is necessarily focused on the difficult task of using both hands and feet as the emergencies of the moment dictate.

Er—ah! said