"Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it."
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
Dame Agatha Christie died #OTD 50 years ago.
She wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections. She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie
Agatha Christie at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451