Agatha Christie - Murder at the vicarage | Audiobook

🌐 Listen and download this audiobook on 3ords.com: https://3ords.com/en/book/murder-at-t... 🎧 Use our Telegram bot: https://t.me/its3ordsBot?start=g78220 📚 TOP-3 similar books:    • Agatha Christie - The mystery of the Blue ...      • Ellery Queen - The Roman hat mystery : A p...      • M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - The trail...   📚 Murder at the vicarage ✍️ Author: Agatha Christie 📖 Excerpt from the book: Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie © 1930 Agatha Christie Limited, a Chorion company. All rights reserved. It is difficult to know quite where to begin this story, but I have fixed my choice on a certain Wednesday at luncheon at the Vicarage. The conversation, though in the main irrelevant to the matter in hand, yet contained one or two suggestive incidents which influenced later developments. I had just finished carving some boiled beef (remarkably tough by the way), and on resuming my seat I remarked, in a spirit most unbecoming to my cloth, that anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe would be doing the world at large a service. My young nephew, Dennis, said instantly: "That'll be remembered against you when the old boy is found bathed in blood. Mary will give evidence, won't you, Mary? And describe how you brandished the carving knife in a vindictive manner." Mary, who is in service at the Vicarage as a stepping stone to better things and higher wages, merely said, in a loud businesslike voice, "Greens," and thrust a cracked dish at him in a truculent manner. My wife said in a sympathetic voice, "Has he been very trying?" I did not reply at once, for Mary, setting the greens on the table with a bang, proceeded to thrust a dish of singularly moist and unpleasant dumplings under my nose. I said, "No, thank you," and she deposited the dish with a clatter on the table and left the room. "It is a pity that I am such a shocking housekeeper," said my wife with a tinge of genuine regret in her voice. I was inclined to agree with her. My wife's name is Griselda—a highly suitable name for a parson's wife. But there the suitability ends. She is not in the least meek. I have always been of the opinion that a clergyman should be unmarried. Why I should have urged Griselda to marry me at the end of twenty-four hours' acquaintance is a mystery to me. Marriage, I have always held, is a serious affair, to be entered into only after long deliberation and forethought, and sui ... 🏷 Tags: Murder at the Vicarage,Agatha Christie,detective audiobook,mystery books,classic detective,cozy mystery,English literature,listen online,audio books,fiction,whodunit,crime fiction,classic mystery,full audiobook #its3ords #audiobook #book #books #audiobooks 🎧 Listen on Telegram: https://t.me/its3ordsBot?start=g78220 🌐 Listen on website: https://3ords.com/en/book/murder-at-t... 📢 Our channel: https://t.me/its3ords ⚠️ DISCLAIMER: This content is produced automatically with speech synthesis technology and may contain inaccuracies. This audiobook is narrated using an AI-generated voice. The voice does not represent any real person. We do not collaborate with or have any affiliation with any actors, announcers, or celebrities. 3ords.com is a technical platform intended for the automated processing and presentation of textual materials in audio form. The platform may contain materials, authors, rights holders or mentioned persons who hold special legal statuses under the laws of various countries. The platform performs no editorial selection of works and expresses neither agreement nor disagreement with the authors' opinions. Materials may be supplied by users or obtained from openly available internet sources. All works belong to their lawful rights holders. 3ords.com claims no rights to these materials and is not their author, publisher or rights holder. The project is informational and educational in nature and receives no commercial benefit. We encourage you to support authors and buy official editions. ❗ Upon a lawful claim from a rights holder, or if prohibited materials are discovered, the content will be removed immediately on request. Contact: LibertyStartups@proton.me