From Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington
“Mrs. McGillicuddy panted along the platform in the wake of the porter carrying her suitcase.”
“Linnet Ridgeway!”
From Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile
“It was in June of 1935 that I came home from my ranch in South America for a stay of about six months.”
From Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders
“Mrs. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September–a Thursday.”
From Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
“Mrs. Van Rydock moved a little back from the mirror and sighed.”
From Agatha Christie's They Do It with Mirrors
“In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in The Times.”
From Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None
“It was 5 o’clock on a winter’s morning in Syria.”
From Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.
First Sentence of a New World 