Philomel Cottage: an Agatha Christie Short Story

The recently married Alix Martin is obsessed with a recurring dream of her new husband’s murder. Each time she can see the murderer clearly, and it’s the mild-mannered man she had previously been engaged to, taking his revenge. What’s worse is that at the end of the dream she thanks the murderer.

Perplexed, Alix tries to calm herself by spending time in the garden of her picturesque cottage. But her elderly gardener confuses her further by wishing her well on her coming trip to London—a trip which Alix knows nothing about. Now she asks herself if the gardener is imagining things, or is she? ... more>>