They Do It With Mirrors. Агата Кристи
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First published in Great Britain by Collins, The Crime Club 1952
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To Mathew Prichard
Contents
Mrs Van Rydock moved a little back from the mirror and sighed.
‘Well, that’ll have to do,’ she murmured. ‘Think it’s all right, Jane?’
Miss Marple eyed the Lanvanelli creation appraisingly.
‘It seems to me a very beautiful gown,’ she said.
‘The gown’s all right,’ said Mrs Van Rydock and sighed.
‘Take it off, Stephanie,’ she said.
The elderly maid with the grey hair and the small pinched mouth eased the gown carefully up over Mrs Van Rydock’s upstretched arms.
Mrs Van Rydock stood in front of the glass in her peach satin slip. She was exquisitely corseted. Her still shapely legs were encased in fine nylon stockings. Her face, beneath a layer of cosmetics and constantly toned up by massage, appeared almost girlish at a slight distance. Her hair was less grey than tending to hydrangea blue and was