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Agatha Christie

(1890—1976), mystery writer

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(1890-1976) British mystery writer Archaelogists make the best husbands. The older you get, the more they're interested. www.english-slang.com

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British mystery writer, in news summaries, 9 March 1954 An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. www.english-slang.com

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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to BE alive is a […] www.english-slang.com

whodunit

[whodunit] {n.} A detective story; a murder story; a thriller. * /Agatha Christie was a true master of the whodunit./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

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