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Curious literary fact 1: Patricia Highsmith adapted the Christie disappearance for her novel A Suspension of Mercy, but in her version, the novelist is the dastardly husband, not the vanishing wife. The additional twist is that, with their marriage in tatters, the husband has been writing a fantastical account of how he might kill the wife—an accou

Sweet and beloved Elizabeth! I read and reread her letter, and some softened feelings stole into my heart and dared to whisper paradisiacal dreams of love and joy; but the apple was already eaten, and the angel's arm bared to drive me from all hope. Yet I would die to make her happy. If the monster executed his threat, death was inevitable; yet, ag

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