Thank you for your many kind comments on this latest Tale for Our Time. There are seventy-three others in our extensive archive.
Our seventy-fourth is Agatha Christie's second Hercule Poirot whodunnit The Murder on the Links. In tonight's episode Marthe Daubreil advances a tentative identification of the second body:
"Yes, there is something, but I hardly know whether you will believe it—it seems so absurd."
"At any rate, tell us, mademoiselle..."
"It seems so queer, and yet I am almost sure. I will tell you. On the morning of the day M. Renauld was murdered, I was walking in the garden here, when I heard a sound of men's voices quarrelling. I pushed aside the bushes and looked through. One of the men was M. Renauld and the other was a tramp, a dreadful looking creature in filthy rags. He was alternately whining and threatening. I gathered he was asking for money, but at that moment mamancalled me from the house, and I had to go. That is all, only—I am almost sure that the tramp and the dead man in the shed are one and the same."
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