Currently reading. I’m pretty sure I have read this one before, but they didn’t have the one I wanted in the public library, so I chose this one. You can’t leave a library without a book, can you?
By the Pricking of my Thumbs Agatha Christie
Tommy rang the front door bell and Tuppence were duly admitted by a rather harassed looking young woman in a nylon overall. She showed them into a small sitting-room saying rather breathlessly, ‘I’ll tell Miss Packard. She’s expecting you and she’ll be down in a minute. You won’t mind waiting just a little, will you, but it’s old Ms Carraway. She’s been and swallowed her thimble again, you see.’
‘How on earth did she do a thing like that?’ asked Tuppence, surprised.
‘Does it for fun,’ explained the household help briefly. ‘Always doing it.’
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