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    The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife: A Parker Pyne Short Story
    The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife: A Parker Pyne Short Story
    The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife: A Parker Pyne Short Story
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    The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife: A Parker Pyne Short Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Maria Packington suspects her husband of having an affair. In an attempt to revitalise her marriage, she responds to an ad from Mr. Parker Pyne – who promises to provide solutions to unhappiness. Maria's life soon undergoes a rapid transformation…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 8, 2012
    ISBN9780062212580
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    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 Case of the Middle-Aged Wife - Agatha Christie

      The Case of the

      Middle-Aged Wife

      A Parker Pyne Short Story

      by Agatha Christie

      An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

      Contents

      Cover

      Title Page

      The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife

      About the Author

      Back Ads

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife

      ‘The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife’ was first published as ‘The Woman Concerned’ in Woman’s Pictorial, 8 October 1932.

      Four grunts, an indignant voice asking why nobody could leave a hat alone, a slammed door, and Mr Packington had departed to catch the eight forty-five to the city. Mrs Packington sat on at the breakfast table. Her face was flushed, her lips were pursed, and the only reason she was not crying was that at the last minute anger had taken the place of grief. ‘I won’t stand it,’ said Mrs Packington. ‘I won’t stand it!’ She remained for some moments brooding, and then murmured: ‘The minx. Nasty sly little cat! How George can be such a fool!’

      Anger faded; grief came back. Tears came into Mrs Packington’s eyes and rolled slowly down her middle-aged cheeks. ‘It’s all very well to say I won’t stand it, but what can I do?’

      Suddenly she felt alone, helpless, utterly forlorn. Slowly she took up the morning paper and read, not for the first time, an advertisement on the front page.

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