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Short Stories

Agatha Christie wrote nearly 160 short stories. This includes the recently discovered and published The Capture of Cerberus and The Incident of the Dog's Ball.   She used many of the plots in later novels and plays. Here you can discuss each one.

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The Edge

Moderator1 01 Dec 09 at 9:57 a.m. GMT

Clare Halliwell has known Gerald Lee all her life and always harboured hopes that they would marry.  However, he married Vivien Harper.  When Clare learns something awful about Vivien she has to decide whether or not to tell Gerald.  What she finally decides to do proves to have tragic consequences.

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Tommy_A_Jones 18 Feb 11 at 3:54 p.m. GMT

I liked this story alot, I felt it could easily be Adapted in a Talews of The Unexpected or Ruth Rendel Mysteries type of way but although I did enjoy it I didn't understand the end after The Tormenter Died, Can anyone explain it to me? Thanks.

MissQuin 12 Mar 10 at 3:56 p.m. GMT

I read this one yesterday.

Unusually for a Christie story, it doesnt have a happy ending. It's odd as my sympahy isnt with the victim, but her tormentor. Yet AC builds up how Clare feels, she has remained reserved and resectable her whole life. But then it's like a dam bursting. I couldnt believe the last page, it's not an end I would have chosen.