The Big Read: Good clean fun for dirty young minds
30 March 2015 - 02:02
In one of Agatha Christie's otherwise obscenity-free novels her crime-writer character Ariadne Oliver is speculating about the perfect opening line. It needs to be racy and shocking and seize the scandalised attention of the readers, so she wants to open with "'Damn!' said the Duchess." But alas, she knows they'll never let her get away with it.
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