About 10 feet from where I am sitting was a very ornately carved antique trunk she had bought in China in the 1920s or so.
Her husband and she had gotten out of China just before the Japanese got to them.
They spent most of the war in Baghdad.
There, the ex-pats (her husband was British) got together often for parties.
Agatha Christie was among one.
One time when it was their turn to host, Agatha was sitting on that trunk and admiring the carving.
She told Barbara she must find a way to use it in one of her books.
We don't know if she did.
Has anyone noticed such a reference?
“among one” = among them.
There is a short story about an ornate Spanish Chest in which the body of a “jealous husband” is found. That’s the only story that I can think of which uses any kind of chest or trunk...
The method of murder was really quite unique. A small hole was drilled into the chest and as the husband spied on his wife through the hole a dastardly, but brilliant, murderer shove a sword into the hole killing the husband. Quite the mystery for the Belgium detective to solve. :-)