After the Funeral: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
β Scribed by Agatha Christie
- Publisher
- HarperCollins;William Morrow
- Year
- 1953;2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 130 KB
- Edition
- World book night special ed
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
When Cora Lansquenet is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richardβs funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richardβs will, Cora was clearly heard to say, βItβs been hushed up very nicely, hasnβt it.β¦ But he was murdered, wasnβt he?β
In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery.β¦
Review
βComplete with a genealogical tree, a dubious will, and a family full of potential murderers.β (New York Times )
βAgatha Christieβs puzzles have delighted fans for decades.β (Diane Mott Davidson, New York Times bestselling author )
About the Author
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in one hundred foreign countries. She is the author of eighty novels and short-story collections, nineteen plays, and six novels under the name Mary Westmacott. She died in 1976.
β¦ Subjects
A Mystery
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
The late Richard Abernethie's solicitor, Mr. Entwhistle, turns to Hercule Poirot after Richard's sister Cora is killed with a hatchet the day after suggesting to other family members that her wealthy brother's death may not have been natural. The bodies seem to be piling up at Enderby Hall as her co
**A classic Hercule Poirot investigation, Agatha Christieβs *Elephants Can Remember* has the expert detective delving into an unsolved crime from the past involving the strange death of a husband and wife.** Hercule Poirot stood on the clifftop. Here, many years earlier, there had been a fatal acci
SUMMARY: Christie, Poirot--and murder--are never out of season. A family get-together for the holidays begins with a game, and ends in cold-blooded murder. Who better to solve it than Poirot, who "has solved some puzzling mysteries in his time but never has his mighty brain functioned more brillia
SUMMARY: Christie, Poirot--and murder--are never out of season. A family get-together for the holidays begins with a game, and ends in cold-blooded murder. Who better to solve it than Poirot, who "has solved some puzzling mysteries in his time but never has his mighty brain functioned more brillia
SUMMARY: Alice Ascher, a shopkeeper in Andover, is bludgeoned to death at her place of work. Next to die is Miss Bernard in Bexhill, then Mr. Clarke in Churston. More disturbing than the alphabetic sequence of the killings or the ABC Railway guide that the killer leaves at the scene of each crime