Finessing The King
Written by
Agatha Christie
Copyright 1929
[Isabel Ostrander's McCarty and Riordan] "Not even Tommy’s trivia about the way newspapers are printed can detract Tuppence from her boredom. She wants to go dancing and is reading the paper in search of a party. That is until she discovers a secret message in one of the articles. Just what does it mean to “finesse the king”?"
5th story in the collection .