Magnolia Blossom

  • Short Story
  • 1926

About to elope to South Africa with her lover, a wife receives the news that her husband's financial empire is collapsing. Should she carry through with it or return to help her husband, or will the story have an unexpected twist?

More about this story

First published in issue 329 of the Royal Magazine in March 1926. The story first appeared in book form in the UK in the 1982 collection The Agatha Christie Hour to tie in with a dramatisation of the story in the television series of the same name.

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