Closed casket : the new Hercule Poirot mystery / Private investigators Women authors Wealth Disinheritance
Hannah, Sophie, 1971-
Closed casket : the new Hercule Poirot mystery / Sophie Hannah. - First edition. - viii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
"Agatha Christie"--Cover.
"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?
9780062458827 0062458825
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Poirot, Hercule, (Fictitious character) --Fiction.
Private investigators--England--Fiction.
Women authors--Fiction.
Wealth--Fiction.
Disinheritance--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
PR6058.A5928 / C56 2016
823
Closed casket : the new Hercule Poirot mystery / Sophie Hannah. - First edition. - viii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
"Agatha Christie"--Cover.
"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?
9780062458827 0062458825
bl2016029150
Poirot, Hercule, (Fictitious character) --Fiction.
Private investigators--England--Fiction.
Women authors--Fiction.
Wealth--Fiction.
Disinheritance--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
PR6058.A5928 / C56 2016
823