num_pages: 320
description: An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home. Everyone blamed Emily’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.
language: English
title: Dumb Witness
titlecomplete: Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #17)
characters: Dr. James Sheppard, Dr Rex Donaldson, Mr. Purvis from Harchester, Georges (The Nemean Lion), Dr. Grainger, Charles Arundell, Miss Peabody (Dumb Witness), Dr. Jacob Tanios, Gabler and Stretcher, Wilhelmina ‘Minnie’ Lawson, Nurse Carruthers, Mary Fox, Mrs. Peters, Bella Tanios, Arthur Hastings, Bob (Dumb Witness), Hercule Poirot, The maid and the cook at Littlegreen, Theresa Arundell, Emily Arundell, Norman Gale, Julia and Isabel Tripp, Mrs. Varley, The waiter at the George, The chemist (Dumb Witness)
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Murder Mystery, British Literature, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 36265
places: Market Basing, Berkshire, England, London, England
series: Hercule Poirot
publisher: HarperCollins