MurderIsEasy

MURDER IS EASY Agatha Christie Chapter 1 England! England after many years! How was he going to like it? Luke Fitzwilliam asked himself that question as he walked down the gangplank to the dock. It was present at the back of his mind all through the wait in the customs shed. It came suddenly to the fore when he was finally seated in the boat train. Here he was, honorably retired on a pension, with some small private means of his own, a gentleman of leisure, come home to England. What was he going to do with himself? With an effort, Luke Fitzwilliam averted his eyes from the landscape outside the railway-carriage window and settled down to a perusal of the papers he had just bought. The Times, the Daily Clarion and Punch. He started with the Daily Clarion. The Clarion was given over entirely to Epsom. He had drawn a horse in the club sweep and he looked now to see what the Clarion's racing correspondent thought of its chances. He found it dismissed contemptuously in a sentence: Of the others, Jujube the II, Mark's Mile, Santony and Jerry Boy are hardly likely to qualify for a place. A likely outsider is - But Luke paid no attention to t......