{"id":1375,"date":"2018-04-09T14:09:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T14:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sophiehannah.com\/?page_id=1375"},"modified":"2023-10-20T12:35:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T12:35:35","slug":"the-mystery-of-three-quarters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sophiehannah.com\/the-mystery-of-three-quarters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of Three Quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; specialty=&#8221;on&#8221; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; parallax_method_1=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method_2=&#8221;off&#8221; padding_bottom_1=&#8221;0px&#8221; padding_bottom_2=&#8221;0px&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; use_background_color_gradient=&#8221;on&#8221; background_color_gradient_stops=&#8221;#559ae0 0%|#75c4b7 100%&#8221; background_color_gradient_start=&#8221;#559ae0&#8243; background_color_gradient_end=&#8221;#75c4b7&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||0px|&#8221; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; custom_padding_phone=&#8221;&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/sophiehannah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/MOTQ-UK-800.jpg&#8221; align_tablet=&#8221;center&#8221; align_phone=&#8221;center&#8221; align_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;MOTQ UK&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]&nbsp;<br \/>\n[\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/sophiehannah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/MOTQ-US-800.jpg&#8221; align_tablet=&#8221;center&#8221; align_phone=&#8221;center&#8221; align_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;MOTQ US&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]&nbsp;<br \/>\n[\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;2_3&#8243; specialty_columns=&#8221;2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_row_inner custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;Row&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px|&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||0px|&#8221; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;0px||0px|&#8221; custom_padding_phone=&#8221;&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=&#8221;2_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_color=&#8221;rgba(255,255,255,0.5)&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||0px|9%&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;title&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; header_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; header_font_size=&#8221;50px&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;0px|30px||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;50px|20px|0px|0px&#8221; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;40px|20px|0px|0px&#8221; custom_padding_phone=&#8221;30px|20px|0px|0px&#8221; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1>THE MYSTERY OF THREE QUARTERS<\/h1>\n<hr class=\"line-blue-left\" \/>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;24&#8243; text_line_height=&#8221;1.4em&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;0px|||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px|8%|30px|0px&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>The <em>Sunday Times<\/em> Top Ten bestseller<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Returning home after lunch one day, Hercule Poirot finds an angry woman waiting outside his front door. She demands to know why Poirot has sent her a letter accusing her of the murder of Barnabas Pandy, a man she has neither heard of nor ever met.<\/p>\n<p>Poirot has also never heard of a Barnabas Pandy, and has accused nobody of murder. Shaken, he goes inside, only to find that he has a visitor waiting for him \u2014 a man who also claims also to have received a letter from Poirot that morning, accusing him of the murder of Barnabas Pandy.<\/p>\n<p>Poirot wonders how many more letters of this sort have been sent in his name. Who sent them, and why? More importantly, who is Barnabas Pandy, is he dead, and, if so, was he murdered? 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