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#2 New Hercule Poirot

Sophie Hannah Agatha Christie

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English
Harper Collins
27 March 2017
‘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 has been commissioned by Agatha Christie Limited to pen a second fully-authorised Poirot novel.

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Imprint:   Harper Collins
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 26mm
Weight:   280g
ISBN:   9780008134129
ISBN 10:   000813412X
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Author Website:   http://www.agathachristie.com

Sophie Hannah is the internationally bestselling author of 10 psychological thrillers, which have been published in more than 20 countries and adapted for television. Her novel The Carrier won the 2013 Specsavers National Book Awards Crime Thriller of the Year. Sophie is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and as a poet has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare.

Reviews for Closed Casket (#2 New Hercule Poirot)

'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' Sunday Times 'An ingenious solution to the mystery of Closed Casket represents another satisfying addition to the Agatha Christie canon' Irish Times 'Top-class entertainment' Woman & Home 'Closed Casket is deviously plotted, deeply satisfying and does the grande dame of crime proud' Good Housekeeping 'A brand new (and fiendishly puzzling) case for Hercule Poirot - seriously, what could be more blissful?' Saga Magazine 'This mystery is enormously compulsive - keep 'em coming! 5 stars' Heat 'Christie's boots as a crime writer are hard to fill, but Hannah achieves it quietly and intelligently with Poirot-sized steps once again in Closed Casket... The whole book will not only delight Agatha Christie devotees but anyone who loves a good, well written murder mystery' Devon Life 'A brand new (and fiendishly puzzling) case for Hercule Poirot - seriously, what could be more blissful? ... Gorgeous' SAGA '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' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'an absolute gem for murder mystery fans' CLOSER


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