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Crooked House
Crooked House is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1949 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 23 May of the same year.
The action takes place in and near London in the autumn of 1947. Christie said this and "Ordeal by Innocence" were her favourites amongst her own works.
Title meaning.
The title refers to a nursery rhyme ("There Was a Crooked Man"), a
of Morleys into a suitcase as she packs for a trip.
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- "Reckoning" (12 Sep 2013): Maddie smokes her final Morley before James Kendrick's men burst into the house she and Jesse were hiding in, before she blows herself and them up.
- "Californication": Hank, played by David