{"id":2443,"date":"2026-01-03T22:29:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-golden-ball-and-other-stories-christie-agatha\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:29:43","slug":"the-golden-ball-and-other-stories-christie-agatha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-golden-ball-and-other-stories-christie-agatha\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Ball and Other Stories – Christie, Agatha"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThe Listerdale Mystery\u201d was first published as \u201cThe Benevolent Butler\u201d in Grand Magazine,<\/span> December 1925.<\/p>\n

M<\/span>rs. St. Vincent was adding up figures. Once or twice she sighed, and her hand stole to her aching forehead. She had always disliked arithmetic. It was unfortunate that nowadays her life should seem to be composed entirely of one particular kind of sum, the ceaseless adding together of small necessary items of expenditure making a total that never failed to surprise and alarm her.<\/p>\n

Surely it couldn\u2019t come to that!<\/span> She went back over the figures. She had made a trifling error in the pence, but otherwise the figures were correct.<\/p>\n

Mrs. St. Vincent sighed again. Her headache by now was very bad indeed. She looked up as the door opened and her daughter Barbara came into the room. Barbara St. Vincent was a very pretty girl, she had her mother\u2019s delicate features, and the same proud turn of the head, but her eyes were dark instead of blue, and she had a different mouth, a sulky red mouth not without attraction.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh! Mother,\u201d she cried. \u201cStill juggling with those horrid old accounts? Throw them all into the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must know where we are,\u201d said Mrs. St. Vincent uncertainly.<\/p>\n

The girl shrugged her shoulders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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