Description
CAN HERCULE POIROT SOLVE A BAFFLING MURDER MYSTERY IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS?
It's 19 December 1931. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool are called to investigate the murder of a man in the apparent safe haven of a Norfolk hospital ward. Catchpool's mother, the irrepressible Cynthia, insists that Poirot stays in a crumbling mansion by the coast, so that they can all be together for the festive period while Poirot solves the case. Cynthia's friend Arnold is soon to be admitted to that same hospital and his wife is convinced he will be the killer's next victim, though she refuses to explain why.
Poirot has less than a week to solve the crime and prevent more murders, if he is to escape from this nightmare scenario and get home in time for Christmas. Meanwhile, someone else - someone utterly ruthless - also has ideas about what ought to happen to Hercule Poirot . . .
About the Author
Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling crime fiction writer. Her crime novels have been translated into 34 languages and published in 51 countries. Her psychological thriller The Carrier won the Specsavers National Book Award for Crime Thriller of the Year in 2013. In 2014 Sophie began writing new Hercule Poirot mysteries with The Monogram Murders, which was an international bestseller. Sophie is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in more than a hundred foreign languages. Her phenomenal career spanned six decades, until her death in 1976.
Reviews
'Sophie Hannah's latest case for Agatha Christie's Belgian detective is a dark psychological thriller with an ingenious resolution and it certainly takes the kitsch out of Christmas.
-Daily Record
'If you want a Christie for Christmas, you coundlt do bvetter than this.'
-Alex Michaelides
'Infused with such love and energy ... Poirot is exactly as Christie created him, with a vitality that recalls her very best novels.'
-Daily Telegraph
"Perfect...a pure treat for Agatha Christie fans."
-Tana French
'A magnificently intricate puzzle for Poirot's famous little grey cells.'
-Daily Mail
"What Sophie and Agatha have in common is a rare talent for fiendish unpredictability: they make you see how the impossible might be possible after all."
- Sunday Telegraph
"The latest in Sophie Hannah's series of mysteries featuring Agatha Christie's beloved detective is a magnificently intricate puzzle for Poirot's famous little grey cells."
- Daily Mail
"I was thrilled to see Poirot in such very, very good hands."
- Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of Gone Girl
"Does Sophie Hannah's Poirot live up to our expectations? Yes, he does, and markedly so ... Poirot is still Poirot. Poirot is back."
- Alexander McCall Smith
"Sophie Hannah is genuinely Christie's heir."
- The Scotsman
Book Information
ISBN 9780008380793
Author Sophie Hannah
Format Hardback
Page Count 384
Imprint HarperCollins
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Weight(grams) 590g
Dimensions(mm) 240mm * 159mm * 35mm
