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1. In the Agatha Christie novel "Mrs McGinty's Dead" an elderly charwoman is apparently murdered by her rather seedy lodger. What strange object has been used to commit the crime?
2. In "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl, in what novel way does the murderess dispose of the murder weapon?
3. Who is the lady detective who discovers her neighbour's lady friend buried upside down in a garden pot, in the book "___ ___ and the Potted Gardener"?
4. In what C.J. Box novel is an eco terrorist killed by an exploding cow?
5. Jim Dandy and Dodee Swisher are suspects in the murder of an obnoxious hotel employee in Bold Harbour, in a book by Peter Abresch. What is the murder weapon?
6. In Dorothy Sayers' "Busman's Honeymoon", Lord Peter Wimsey and his bride solve a murder in which a most improbable weapon is used. Can you identify it?
7. In what book, set in a mediaeval Benedictine monastery in Northern Italy, are a series of deaths investigated by a Franciscan monk and his novice, during which time he discovers that Jorge, a senior blind member of the Abbey, has put poison on the pages of a forbidden book so that readers die when they lick their fingers to turn pages?
8. In what Agatha Christie Book is a young girl drowned in a bowl of water while apple bobbing?
9. A young girl dies before her wedding day.
Her sister fears her fate may be the same.
The story is, of course, "The Speckled Band".
Sherlock Holmes the investigator's name.
But what is the death instrument?
10. In what Agatha Christie novel was a man killed by an injection from a phoney dentist?
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