"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."

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Agatha Christie was an English writer known for detective fiction and stage plays. She created the fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Her works are among the most widely translated and bestselling in literary history.

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