Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery

by Agatha Christie (Author), SophieHannah (Author)

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2016
$23.95

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?
Addictive, ferociously clever, and packed with clues, wit, and murder, Closed Casket is a triumph from an author whose work is as tricky as anything written by Agatha Christie (Alexander McCall Smith, New York Times Book Review, on The Monogram Murders)

Synopsis

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?

Addictive, ferociously clever, and packed with clues, wit, and murder, Closed Casket is a triumph from an author whose work is as tricky as anything written by Agatha Christie (Alexander McCall Smith, New York Times Book Review, on The Monogram Murders)

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 464
Edition: large type edition
Publisher: Newbury House Publishers,U.S.
Published: 21 Oct 2016
ISBN 10: 0062496662
ISBN 13: 9780062496669

Media Reviews

Classic Christie . . . Captures the essence of the originals without being a slavish imitation . . . Clues emerge, but the case remains perplexing. Christie aficionados will delight in the familiar repartee and the intricate deduction of the solution. --Washington Post
Equal parts charming and ingenious, dark and quirky and utterly engaging...I was thrilled to see Poirot in such very, very good hands. Reading The Monogram Murders was like returning to a favorite room of a long-lost home. --Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl
Perfect...a pure treat for Agatha Christie fans. --Tana French, New York Times betselling author of The Secret Place
Sophie Hannah's The Monogram Murders does Christie proud. Our favorite detective is back and in impeccable form! --Charles Todd, New York Times bestselling author of An Unwilling Accomplice

Author Bio

SOPHIE HANNAH is the New York Times-bestselling author of numerous psychological thrillers, which have been published in 51 countries and adapted for television, as well as The Monogram Murders, the first Hercule Poirot novel authorized by the estate of Agatha Christie, and the follow up The Closed Casket. Sophie is also the author of a self-help book, How to Hold a Grudge, and hosts the podcast of the same name. She lives in Cambridge, UK. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.