num_pages: 256
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: Nurse Carruthers, Charles Arundell, Bob (Dumb Witness), Theresa Arundell, Dr. Grainger, The waiter at the George, Mrs. Peters, Georges (The Nemean Lion), Norman Gale, Dr. James Sheppard, Mrs. Varley, Hercule Poirot, Julia and Isabel Tripp, Gabler and Stretcher, Dr Rex Donaldson, Miss Peabody (Dumb Witness), Mr. Purvis from Harchester, Mary Fox, Dr. Jacob Tanios, Bella Tanios, Arthur Hastings, The chemist (Dumb Witness), Emily Arundell, The maid and the cook at Littlegreen, Wilhelmina ‘Minnie’ Lawson
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Classics, Murder Mystery, British Literature, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Audiobook
ratings_count: 36271
places: London, England, Market Basing, Berkshire, England
series: Hercule Poirot
publisher: HarperCollins