Dumb Witness Hercule Poirot Investigate

✍ Scribed by Christie, Agatha

• Book ID: 112632784
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 310 KB
• Series: Hercule Poirot 16
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780061741425

✦ Synopsis

Miss Emily was old, rich, and afraid—and now, she's dead. Her terrified plea to Hercule Poirot came a little too late. All that's left is a house full of greedy heirs, and a very strange letter that could solve the mystery—or add to it.

Review

“Agatha Christie’s ability to devise intricate plots, coupled with her understanding of human nature—at its best and worst—have made her tales timeless.” (Jan Burke, award-winning author of the Irene Kelly mysteries )

“Novelty, intriguing character types, and ingenuity. ” (New York Times )

“One of Poirot’s most brilliant achievements.” (Glasgow Herald )

From the Back Cover

Everyone blamed Emily Arundell’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her.…

On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously, he didn’t receive the letter until June 28th…by which time Emily was already dead.…