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[PINKGREAT]

Dear experts,

What does 'for a good pan of the war' mean:

'For a good pan of the war she had been a member of French Resistance...'

Thanks in advance,

Olga.

[Delmobile]

I think this has got to be a typo. It makes no sense. I would guess "for a good part of the war," which means for a large portion [of the time the war lasted].

[native speaker & writer, not teacher]

[BobK]

I think this has got to be a typo. It makes no sense. I would guess "for a good part of the war," which means for a large portion [of the time the war lasted].

[native speaker & writer, not teacher]

I agree. (This is the sort of error that often appears on the Internet, because of faulty Optical Character Recognition software.)

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[Delmobile]

Okay, I googled the phrase. This is in "At Bertram's Hotel" too, about Bess Sedgwick, and it is indeed a typo; the sentence reads, "For a good part of the war she had been a member of the French Resistance, and was said to have six notches on her gun representing dead Germans."

If you're enjoying this one, I would like to recommend The 4:50 from Paddington which is my favorite Miss Marple story. :)