There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

Murder on the Links began with news from France a wife debunked who claimed intruders tied her up and murdered her husband. Mary Mead.

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was a British crime writer of novels short stories and plays. She also wrote the world's longest-running play The Mousetrap. Although initially unsuccessful at getting her work publiAgatha Christied in 1920 The Bodley Head press publiAgatha Christied her novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles featuring the character of Poirot.