The Companion
England, 1815: Ian Rufford was captured, enslaved, and then abandoned in the lonely dunes of Egypt's desert.
When a friend offers her a safe haven as the live-in companion to reclusive, bestselling novelist Victor Hallowell she jumps at the chance to escape the city. Madeline expects to find rest and quiet in the forests of Upstate New York.
But it wasn't luck that made the Suttons rescue Margot from her bleak existence at the group home. Margot was handpicked to be a companion to their silent, mysterious daughter, Agatha.
Taking a job as a companion to her wealthy widowed aunt, Lizzie Martin enlists the aid of her childhood friend, Inspector Benjamin Ross, to investigate when the body of her predecessor turns up in an old abandoned house.
But it wasn't luck that made the Suttons rescue Margot from her bleak existence at the group home. Margot was handpicked to be a companion to their silent, mysterious daughter, Agatha.
When Jeff starts boarding school, he realizes that the invisible companion that has helped him pass tests and has protected him from bullies is really a demon seeking to possess his soul.
" When Lizzie Martin arrives in London in 1864 to become a lady's companion, her first impressions are disturbing. She's barely out of the station when her cab encounters a wagon carrying the remains of a young woman recently dead.
The Companion is a story, told in prose poetry, about an ordinary person who believes that the existence of suffering proves that God simply does not care. This drives him...
The Companion is a contemporary story of friendship between two unlikely individuals who learn from each other... forever.
Previously published in the print anthology The Thirteen Problems. A murder-suicide in a small village mimics events that took place years before.
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.
Originally published: Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2007.