| Record Number |
744001 |
| ISBN |
9780008134105 (paperback) |
| Author |
Hannah, Sophie, 1971- author. |
| Title |
Closed casket / Sophie Hannah. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. |
| ©2016 |
| Pagination etc. |
x, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
New Hercule Poirot mystery 2 |
| Contents note |
At head of title page: Agatha Christie. |
| Summary Note |
"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? |
| Subject - Name |
Poirot, Hercule(Fictitious character)Fiction |
| Subject |
Private investigators -- England -- Fiction |
| Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction |
| Women authors -- Fiction |
| Wealth -- Fiction |
| Disinheritance -- Fiction |
| Detective and mystery fiction. |
| Added Author |
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 creator. |
| Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 Hercule Poirot mysteries. |
| Shelf Location |
F HANN |
