Manx Gold [short story]
by Agatha Christie
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Previously published in the print anthology The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories. Two cousins, Fenella Mylecharane and Juan Faraker, are engaged. When their eccentric uncle dies, they eagerly return to the Isle of Man for the reading of the will. Having grown up hearing tales of buried treasure on the island, they are excited when the will reveals that their uncle found it. But where?Tags
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One of the most successful and beloved writer of mystery stories, Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie was born in 1890 in Torquay, County Devon, England. She wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920, launching a literary career that spanned decades. In her lifetime, she authored 79 crime novels and a short story collection, 19 show more plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language with another billion in 44 foreign languages. Some of her most famous titles include Murder on the Orient Express, Mystery of the Blue Train, And Then There Were None, 13 at Dinner and The Sittaford Mystery. Noted for clever and surprising twists of plot, many of Christie's mysteries feature two unconventional fictional detectives named Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. Poirot, in particular, plays the hero of many of her works, including the classic, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and Curtain (1975), one of her last works in which the famed detective dies. Over the years, her travels took her to the Middle East where she met noted English archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. They married in 1930. Christie accompanied Mallowan on annual expeditions to Iraq and Syria, which served as material for Murder in Mesopotamia (1930), Death on the Nile (1937), and Appointment with Death (1938). Christie's credits also include the plays, The Mousetrap and Witness for the Prosecution (1953; film 1957). Christie received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for 1954-1955 for Witness. She was also named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1971. Christie died in 1976. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Manx Gold [short story]
- Original title
- Manx gold
- Original publication date
- 1930-05
- People/Characters
- Juan Faraker; Fenella Mylecharane; Ewan Corjeag; Doctor Fayll; Mrs. Skillicorn
- Important places
- Isle of Man
- Epigraph
- Old Mylecharane liv'd up on the broo,
Where Jurby slopes down to the wold,
His croft was all golden with cushag and furze,
His daughter was fair to behold.
"O father, they say you've plenty of stor... (show all)e,
But hidden all out of the way.
No gold shall I see, but its glint on the gorse;
Then what have you done with it, pray?"
"My gold is locked up in a coffer of oak,
Which I dropped in the tide and it sank,
And there it lies fixed like an anchor of hope,
All bright and as safe as the bank." - First words
- "I like that song," I said appreciatively as Fenella finished.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"On Manx Gold," I said, and laughed aloud for sheer happiness.
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