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1 online resource (320 pages) |
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Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
The world's most famous detective returns in this ingenious, stylish, and altogether delicious mystery from the author of the instant bestseller The Monogram Murders (I was thrilled" -- Gillian Flynn). "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 the author whose work is "as tricky as anything written by Agatha Christie" (Alexander McCall Smith, The New York Times Book Review ).". |
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Print version record. |
| Subject |
Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators.
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Nineteen twenties -- Fiction.
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Disinheritance -- Fiction.
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Women authors -- Fiction.
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Private investigators -- Belgium -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Historical fiction.
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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| Added Author |
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.
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| ISBN |
9780062458841 (epub) |
| Standard No. |
9780062458841 |
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