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?
Addictive, ferociously clever, and packed with clues, wit, and murder, Closed Casket is a triumph from an author whose work is "as tricky as anything written by Agatha Christie" (Alexander McCall Smith, New York Times Book Review, on The Monogram Murders)
Author: Sophie Hannah, Agatha Christie
Publisher: William Morrow Large Print
Published: 09/06/2016
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780062496669
ISBN10: 0062496662
Large Print
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Traditional
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Classics