- Fiction, Mystery, Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Private investigators
When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard's will, Cora was clearly heard to say: 'It's been hushed up very nicely, hasn't it. But he was murdered, wasn't he?' In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery.
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- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1953
- Pages
- 237
- Publisher
- Collins, Book Club, William Morrow & Company
- Editions
- 114
- Language
- Italian, Portuguese, gre, German
- ISBN
- 9782702400579
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“OLD Lanscombe moved totteringly from room to room, pulling up the blinds.”
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker. Her father died when she was eleven years old. Her mother taught her at home, encouraging her to write at a very young age. At the age of 16, she went to Mrs. Dryden's finishing school in Paris to study singing and piano. In 1914, at age 24, she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. While he went away to war, she worked as a nurse and wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), which wasn't published until four years later. When her husband came back from the war, they had a daughter. In 1928 she divorced her hus
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