I don’t believe Christie wrote this because of the following errors; “distracted woman” should have “distraught woman” and the use of 2 forms of agitate in the same sentence.
Interesting point … but despite being one of the world’s best-selling authors, if not the #1 … she is not perfect. This is a fairly early one, from 1923 or so… As one of the best-selling authors ever, her story and style has been studied in depth for many… (…interestingly near the end of her life, clinical studies revealed the reading level of her work had dropped significantly… and perhaps even revealed some senility in her last years… especially in the work “Elephants Can Remember”…. Just fyi.)
I agree that it is slightly clumsy in some of the sentence construction, but it was by Christie and a fairly early work published in 1923 (her first was 1920).
@@TM-tx9ct Good Point… distracted is a very serviceable word, but a poor habit; how do I get stuck keep coming back to comments. Anyhow, I will work on not getting too distraught about it all.
It's certainly a well known work of Agatha Christie, which a quick Google search can easily verify. However, as it's an audiobook errors can be expected, whether by a human (or ai as I expect is the case in most of these stories). Furthermore we're talking about language of a middle class English person in the early 1900's. That said I think distraught or discomposed would be more appropriate.
