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Quote by Agatha Christie
But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.
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The speaker wishes Hercule Poirot were still working instead of having retired. They imagine that he might have come to this place to grow vegetable marrows, expressing a playful preference for Poirot’s presence there. The sentence combines regret about his retirement with an amusing picture of him taking up gardening.
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- The murder of Roger Ackroyd
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