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Can anyone tell me why this and The Circular Staircase are labeled as "Miss Cornelia Van Gorder" books?

George Apparently no one can. Miss van Gorder is a character in The Bat, which is a novelization of a play itself adapted loosely from The Circular Staircase…moreApparently no one can. Miss van Gorder is a character in The Bat, which is a novelization of a play itself adapted loosely from The Circular Staircase. However, there seems to be no overlap with The Man in Lower Ten.(less)

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I read a many of her books, but there is one little story i cant put my finger on. It might have been about some secondary characters. It was a man traveling by train ( i think he ended up being the murderer) and he kept saying he wanted his secretary to hold his hand. I think they were traveling in foreign lands. Would anyone know which book this could be? thank!

Robyn You may be thinking of The Man in the Brown Suit, by Agatha Christie. There is train travel, in South Africa, and Sir Eustace Pedler repeatedly asks t…moreYou may be thinking of The Man in the Brown Suit, by Agatha Christie. There is train travel, in South Africa, and Sir Eustace Pedler repeatedly asks the protagonist to act as his secretary, because he wants "a nice girl, with liquid eyes, who'll hold [his] hand when [he's] feeling cross".(less)

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