Bodies in the Library
Across
- 3. Quality of a quiet enthusiasm for inquests
- 4. Memphis pulpit-holder, or the victim at Christie's 1930 parsonage
- 6. Whose absence opens a 1934 Christie title (Why Didn't They Ask ___?)
- 12. First name on the spine; what Johannah might have been called in another life
- 14. Quality of Mrs. Boynton's stare, perhaps
- 15. Bottle fragment in Midtown soil, perhaps
- 16. Knitter who tends to be right
- 18. Where Linnet Ridgeway honeymooned, briefly
- 19. He thinks better in symmetry
- 21. Where Christie debuted; also what Vogue catalogs
- 23. What twelve passengers committed, in turn, on a snowed-in train
- 24. Almonds gone sinister
- 25. One who notices the dust on the mantelpiece
Down
- 1. Suspect's first offering, often inadmissible
- 2. First thing in-house counsel asks about
- 5. Marx's metaphor; also a Christie killer
- 7. Pre-pharma-regs poison of choice
- 8. What the confession confesses, but lawyers won't say
- 9. Scotland Yard's frequent (and frequently confused) inspector
- 10. Marple, to those who knew her
- 11. What Marple becomes, in her last bow
- 13. Roger ___, whose murderer narrates
- 17. What Hercule chased through the railway timetable
- 20. Direction east; also the snowbound coach
- 22. What banal looks like up close, per Arendt