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Subtitle: the new Hercule Poirot mystery
By: Sophie Hannah
Contributors: Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780062458827
Subjects: Private investigators; Women authors; Wealth; Disinheritance; Fiction
Description: "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?
Notes: "Agatha Christie" -- cover.