What I intend to say to you will come as a shock...
Lady Athelinda Playford has planned a house party at her mansion in Clonakilty,County Cork,but it is no ordinary gathering. As guests arrive,Lady Playford summons her lawyer to make an urgent change to her will - one she intends to announce at dinner that night. She has decided to cut off her two children without a penny and leave her fortune to someone who has only weeks to live . . .
Among Lady Playford's guests are two men she has never met - the famous Belgian detective,Hercule Poirot,and Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard. Neither knows why he has been invited...until Poirot starts to wonder if Lady Playford expects a murderer to strike. But why does she seem so determined to provoke,in the presence of a possible killer
When the crime is committed in spite of Poirot's best efforts to stop it,and the victim is not who he expected it to be,will he be able to find the culprit and solve the mystery
Following the phenomenal global success of The Monogram Murders,which was published to critical acclaim following a co-ordinated international launch in September 2014,international best-selling crime writer Sophie Hannah was commissioned by Agatha Christie Limited to pen a second fully-authorised Poirot novel. The Closed Casket marks the centenary of the creation of Christie's world-famous detective Hercule Poirot,introduced in her first book The Mysterious Affair at Styles.A third novel,The Mystery of Three Quarters is published August 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780008134129Number of pages: 400Weight: 280 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 26 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Sparkling second outing for Hannah's reimagined Poirot. The setting (posh Irish country house),the characters (country lawyers,creepy male secretary,stroppy flapper,etc) and the period vocabulary are all spot on,but it's the utter fiendish unpredictability of the plot that makes Sophie the new Agatha'- The Sunday Times
'An ingenious solution to the mystery of Closed Casket represents another satisfying addition to the Agatha Christie canon'- The Irish Times
'This cunningly executed Christie tribute taps into the current vogue for Golden Age crime with its vintage plot,numerous possible motives and neatly contained setting'- Metro
'...a literary marriage made in heaven!'- The Times
'...a novel fizzing with ideas and spikey dialogue'- The Sunday Express
Sophie Hannah
Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling British novelist and poet,best known for her psychological crime fiction. She is also the author of a series based on Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot.
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The reigning queen of crime,Agatha Christie's life took her from her home in the Devon countryside to Cairo,Australia and,of course,a journey on the Orient Express. She created two of the most famous detectives in literature,the moustached Belgian super-sleuth Hercule Poirot and the deceptively genteel village investigator Miss Marple,as well as creating the longest running stage playThe Mousetrap.
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