Bodies in the Library

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