Triad Grafton Books

1 Sweet talkMarrakech: Tuesday Marrakech is just what the guide-books say it is. Marrakech is an ancient walled city surrounded with olive groves and palm trees. Behind it rise the mountains of the high Adas and in the city the market place at Djemaa-el-Fna is alive with jugglers, dancers,...

CHAPTER ONE I GO TO STYLES The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide notoriety which attended it, I have been asked, both by my friend Poirot and the family themselves, to...

THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA He was an old man who fished alone in a skiflF in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-fout days now without taking a fish. In the fitst forty days without a fish the boy's parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst...

The heavy blue notepaper crackled as the man signed his name.The signature was an actorvs: a dashing autograph, biggerby far than any of the text. It began well, rushing forwardboldly before halting suddenly enough to split the supply ofink. Then it retreated to strangle itself in loops. The...