{"id":2309,"date":"2026-01-03T22:22:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/absent-in-the-spring-christie-agatha\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:22:29","slug":"absent-in-the-spring-christie-agatha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/absent-in-the-spring-christie-agatha\/","title":{"rendered":"Absent in the Spring – Christie, Agatha"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joan Scudamore screwed up her eyes as she peered across the dimness of the rest house dining-room. She was slightly short-sighted.<\/p>\n

Surely that\u2019s \u2013 no it isn\u2019t \u2013 I believe it is<\/i>. Blanche Haggard.<\/p>\n

Extraordinary \u2013 right out in the wilds \u2013 to come across an old school friend whom she hadn\u2019t seen for \u2013 oh quite fifteen years.<\/p>\n

At first, Joan was delighted by the discovery. She was by nature a sociable woman, always pleased to run across friends and acquaintances.<\/p>\n

She thought to herself, But, poor dear, how dreadfully she\u2019s changed. She looks years older. Literally years<\/i>. After all, she can\u2019t be more than \u2013 what, forty-eight?<\/p>\n

It was a natural sequence after that to glance at her own appearance in the mirror that happened, most conveniently, to hang just beside the table. What she saw there put her in an even better humour.<\/p>\n

Really, thought Joan Scudamore, I\u2019ve worn very well.<\/p>\n

She saw a slender, middle-aged woman with a singularly unlined face, brown hair hardly touched with grey, pleasant blue eyes and a cheerful smiling mouth. The woman was dressed in a neat, cool travelling coat and skirt and carried a rather large bag containing the necessities of travel.<\/p>\n

Joan Scudamore was travelling back from Baghdad to London by the overland route. She had come up by the train from Baghdad last night. She was to sleep in the railway rest house tonight and go on by car tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Book Preview Joan Scudamore screwed up her eyes as she peered across the dimness of the rest house dining-room. She was slightly short-sighted. Surely that\u2019s \u2013 no it isn\u2019t \u2013 I believe it is. Blanche Haggard. Extraordinary \u2013 right out in the wilds \u2013 to come across an old school friend whom she hadn\u2019t seen … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-agatha-christie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}