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Alix Martin is the main protagonist of Agatha Christie's 1924 short story Philomel Cottage.

Biography[]

Alix Martin marries Gerald Martin, with whom she is in love, and buys a cottage. Before that, she dated another guy named Dick. She is happily married, but she is tormented by a strange premonition. She has nightmares in which Dick kills Gerald. One day their gardener George comes to see them. He blurts out that he came on Wednesday (and not on Friday, as usual), because he believes that Gerald and Alix should leave on Friday (and Alix herself knows nothing about this). That evening, Gerald explains to Alix that George messed something up, and today they were supposed to do photography, and now he’s not in the mood. But Alix begins to be tormented by vague doubts. The next day, she decides to search her husband's room and finds newspaper clippings there, and they talk about a criminal named Charles Lemaitre, who was suspected of murdering his wives. A human skeleton was even discovered on his property. But they couldn’t prove anything. In this Charles Lemaitre, Alix recognizes with horror her husband Gerald. That evening, Gerald tries to drag her into the basement, but she lies that she has already killed two of her husbands by adding poison to their coffee. Gerald falls into a chair in horror, having previously drunk coffee prepared by Alix. When Dick arrives, whom Alix had called in advance, Gerald is already dying of a heart attack.

 
Agatha Christie's signature Heroes

Detectives
Main Detectives
Hercule Poirot | Jane Marple
Secondary Detectives
Parker Pyne | Mr. Quin | Tommy and Tuppence Bresford
Amateur Detectives
Colonel Johnnie Race | Superintendent Battle | Bobby Jones | Frances Derwent | Arthur Calgary | Reniseb | Charles Hayward | Mark Easterbrook | Luke Fitzwilliam | Alix Martin

Righteous Culprits
Novels
Mary Debenham | Princess Natalia Dragomiroff | Hector MacQueen | Edward Masterman | Colonel John Arbuthnot | Linda Arden | Count Rudolph Andrenyi | Countess Helena Andrenyi | Greta Ohlsson | Pierre Michel | Antonio Foscarelli | Hildegarde Schmidt | Cyrus Hardman | Edith de Haviland | Hercule Poirot
Short Stories
Madame Déroulard | Ronnie Oglander

Recurring Supporters
Captain Arthur Hastings | Inspector Japp | Felicity Lemon | Ariadne Oliver | George the Butler | Superintendent Spence | Colonel Johnnie Race | Superintendent Battle | Countess Vera Rosakoff | Raymond West | Joyce Lemprière

Victims & Attempted Victims
Alexander Bonaparte Cust | Miranda Butler | Mrs. Otterbourne | Pilar Estravados | Olga Seminoff

Poirot's Minor Supports
Bella Duveen | Dulcie Duveen | Colonel Carbury | Dr. Stavros Constantine | Dr. Gerard | Sarah King | Katherine Grey | Ginerva Boynton | Judith Butler | Lydia Lee | Miss Bulstrode | Monsieur Bouc | Nadine Boynton | Rosalie Otterbourne | Stephen Farr | Tim Allerton | Valerie Saintclair | Virginie Mesnard

Others
Bridget Conway | Hori | Katherine Corrigan | Monsieur Giraud | Sophia Leonides

Adaptational, Homage & Non-canonical
Knives Out (2019): Benoit Blanc | Marta Cabrera | Linda Drysdale

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