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Название книги: A Murder Is Announced
Автор(ы): Agatha Christie
Жанр: Детектив
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To Ralph and Anne Newman
at whose house I first tasted
‘Delicious Death!’

Chapter 1. A Murder Is Announced
Between 7.30 and 8.30 every morning except Sundays, Johnnie Butt made the round of the village of Chipping Cleghorn on his bicycle, whistling vociferously through his teeth, and alighting at each house or cottage to shove through the letterbox such morning papers as had been ordered by the occupants of the house in question from Mr Totman, stationer, of the High Street. Thus, at Colonel and Mrs Easterbrook’s he deliveredThe Times and theDaily Graphic; at Mrs Swettenham’s he leftThe Times and theDaily Worker; at Miss Hinchcliffe and Miss Murgatroyd’s he left theDaily Telegraph and theNew Chronicle; at Miss Blacklock’s he left theTelegraph, The Times and theDaily Mail.
At all these houses, and indeed at practically every house in Chipping Cleghorn, he delivered every Friday a copy of theNorth Benham News and Chipping Cleghorn Gazette, known locally simply as ‘the Gazette’.
Thus, on Friday mor