ISBN |
9780008134105 |
Name |
Hannah, Sophie, 1971- author. |
Title |
Closed casket : the new Hercule Poirot mystery Sophie Hannah. |
Published |
2016 |
Description |
x, 371 pages : illustration ; 24 cm. |
Notes |
"Agatha Christie"--Cover. |
Summary |
"What I intend to say to you will come as a shock ..." With these words, Lady Athelinda Playford -- one of the world's most beloved children's authors -- springs a surprise on the lawyer entrusted with her will. As guests arrive for a party at her Irish mansion, Lady Playford has decided to cut off her two children without a penny . . . and leave her vast fortune to someone else: an invalid who has only weeks to live. Among Lady Playford's visitors are two strangers: the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard. Neither knows why he has been invited -- until Poirot begins to wonder if Lady Playford expects a murder. But why does she seem so determined to provoke a killer? And why -- when the crime is committed despite Poirot's best efforts to stop it -- does the identity of the victim make no sense at all? |
Subjects |
Poirot, Hercule, -- (Fictitious character) -- Fiction. |
Private investigators -- Belgium -- Fiction |
Women authors -- Fiction |
Disinheritance -- Fiction |
Nineteen twenties -- Fiction |
Genre |
Mystery fiction. |
Historical fiction |
Detective and mystery fiction |
Added Names |
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 |
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