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Agatha Christie's Opening Lines

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Introduction:
"Can you select the correct title to go with each of the first lines? Each question gives the opening lines to a novel as well as other clues to help you."


1. "You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed". Raymond and Carol Boynton are referring to their step-mother. In which novel is Mrs Boynton murdered by injection of digitoxin?
    A Caribbean Mystery
    Appointment with Death
    Murder in Mesopotamia
    Death Comes as the End


2. "Mrs McGillicuddy panted along the platform in the wake of the porter carrying her suitcase". In America, this novel is entitled "What Mrs McGillicuddy Saw". What was the original English title?
    Murder She Said
    Murder on the London Express
    Murder on the Blue Train
    4:50 from Paddington


3. "Elinor Katharine Carlisle. You stand charged upon this indictment with the murder of Mary Gerrard upon the 27th July last. Are you guilty or not guilty?" In which novel did Poirot prove Elinor Carlisle's innocence?
    Funerals are Fatal
    Sad Cypress
    Five Little Pigs
    Sparkling Cyanide


4. "It was the opening day of the summer term at Meadowbank School". Who could be murdering school-mistresses in a prestigious girls' school?
    Cat Among the Pigeons
    Murder at Meadowbank
    Third Girl
    The Case of the Caretaker


5. "The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as 'The Styles Case' has now somewhat subsided." Do you recall the name of this story which was Agatha Christie's debut novel?
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles
    Poirot Loses a Client
    Poirot Investigates the Styles Case
    Murder at Styles


6. "Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience, or feeling an old emotion? I have done this before…" Captain Hastings is on his way to Styles and reminisces about this country house where he first met Hercule Poirot. In which novel does Hastings return to Styles?
    Murder Revisited
    Go Back for Murder
    Murder in Retrospect
    Curtain: Poirot's Last Case


7. "In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in the Times." Agatha Christie considered this novel as probably her best work.
    All of these titles are correct
    Ten Little Niggers
    And Then There Were None
    Ten Little Indians


8. "The Espresso machine behind my shoulder hissed like an angry snake." Thus begins Mark Easterbrook's narrative. Agatha Christie used the working title "The Thallium Mystery" for this novel.
    Sleeping Murder
    At Bertram's Hotel
    The Pale Horse
    Murder by Poison


9. "Miss Arundell died on May 1st. Though her illness was short, her death did not occasion much surprise in the little country town of Market Basing where she had lived since she was a girl of sixteen." Agatha Christie dedicated this book to her dog. Miss Arundell's dog is a significant character in this novel.
    Dumb Witness
    Murder at Littlegreen House
    All of these titles are correct
    Poirot Loses a Client


10. "England! England after many years! How was he going to like it?" Luke Fitzwilliam, a retired policeman, asks himself this question at the beginning of which novel?
    The Moving Finger
    Murder is Easy
    The Body in the Library
    Hallowe'en Party


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