The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (Hercule Poirot 21)

"What did you do when you were first here?" "As a matter of fact we used to play piquet."

"I see."

"Of course one gets rath

er tired of piquet. As a

matter of fact I've got some friends here-- fright

.Agatha Christie

stayed. There vvas a?.°'qaite an artist colony living

all round. You co. um Wlk along by the sea to the

fishing village w. ne.r.e there was a cocktail bar

where people r..'ne.'e were a few shops. It was

all very peacefu.lasant. Girls strolled about

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m trousers wPt

,g tly colored handkerchiefs

tied round the pper halves of their bodies. Young

men in berets with rat[er long hair held forth in

"Mac's Bar" on SUch subjects as plastic values

and abstractiffn in art.

On the da-aadfteer r. Parker Pyne's arrival,

Mrs. Chester ,m. . a t-w conventional remarks to

him on the svt°J,ect of the view and the likelihood

of the weathreeremPitlg fine. She then chatted a

little with th

mah lady about knitting, and

had a few pla.sant ,W.%ds about the sadness of the

political situu°n .W!tll two Danish gentlemen who

spent their tme nsm at dawn and walking for