Closed casket : the new Hercule Poirot mystery / Sophie Hannah.
Series: New Hercule Poirot mysteries. 2 | Hannah, Sophie, New Hercule Poirot mystery ; 02. | New Hercule Poirot mysteryPublication details: London : HarperCollins Publishers, 2016.Description: x, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780008134105 (paperback)
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Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Crime | HAN | Poirot Bk.2 | Available | 065131 |
At head of title page: Agatha Christie.
"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?