Closed Casket

By: Sophie Hannah, Agatha Christie | Series:The New Hercule Poirot Mystery

What I intend to say to you will come as a shock . . .

With these words, Lady Athelinda Playfordone of the worlds most beloved childrens authorssprings 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 Playfords visitors are two strangers: the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard. Neither knows why he has been inviteduntil Poirot begins to wonder if Lady Playford expects a murder. But why does she seem so determined to provoke a killer? And whywhen the crime is committed, despite Poirots best efforts to stop itdoes 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)