Агата Кристи / Agatha Christie
Зло под солнцем / Evil Under the Sun
Agatha Christie
EVIL UNDER THE SUN
Copyright 1941 Agatha Christie Limited.
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Саксин С.М., перевод на русский язык, 2020
Издание на русском языке. ООО «Издательство «Эксмо», 2020
Chapter 1
When Captain Roger Angmering built himself a house in the year 1782 on the island off Leathercombe Bay, it was thought the height of eccentricity on his part. A man of good family such as he was should have had a decorous mansion set in wide meadows with, perhaps, a running stream and good pasture.
But Captain Roger Angmering had only one great love, the sea. So he built his house a sturdy house too, as it needed to be, on the little windswept gull-haunted promontory cut off from land at each high tide.
He did not marry, the sea was his first and last spouse, and at his death the house and island went to a distant cousin. That...