Tales of Space and TimeA collection of three short stories and two novellas written between 1897 and 1898. All the stories had first been published in various monthly periodicals and this was the first volume to collect these stories.

Packed full of seafaring detail and historical fact

Can you ever truly escape your past

and some will not survive

Agatha Christies world is one of glamorous society parties

ruler of a province

In a burnt-out house

I still had no idea about London

The story is narrated by a journeyman character actor who comfortably moves among the upper and middle classes

And then a woman approaches her

"Call me Bathsheba

but of national prestige

General Patton