After the Funeral
'He was murdered, wasn't he?' Cora Lansquenet had always been tactless...and her well-bred family chose to ignore the remark she made after her brother Richard's funeral. They remembered it next day, when Cora was murdered with a hatchet...and several days later, when someone sent Cora's...
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'He was murdered, wasn't he?'
Cora Lansquenet had always been tactless...and her well-bred family chose to ignore the remark she made after her brother Richard's funeral.
They remembered it next day, when Cora was murdered with a hatchet...and several days later, when someone sent Cora's companion a sliver of wedding cake steeped in arsenic...
But by then the family solicitor had called in Hercule Poirot.
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Format: paperback
Publish date: 1981-10
Publisher: Fontana
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Series: Hercule Poirot (#29)
This one was not my favorite. It took awhile to get going, Poirot doesn't show up until just after the 25% mark, and I had a hard time wrapping my head around the cast of characters for the longest time. Despite all that, I didn't hate it, and it was a fast read.
This is the third Agatha Christie novel I’ve read, and I’ve definitely passed the threshold from wary curiosity to fandom. The first two (And Then There Were None; Orient Express) were so famous that even a detective mystery averse reader like me knew of them, but I’d never heard of this one. It was...
Another Poirot I had to read because of my spouse's addiction to re-reading the books after we've seen videos of same. In this one, a rich old man, Richard Abernethie, dies and leaves a large fortune. The family gathers for the reading of the will, and one of them, Cora Lansquenet, blurts out someth...
Should murder make sense? Mr Entwhistle wondered. Academically the answer was yes. But many pointless crimes were on record. It depended, Mr Entwhistle reflected, on the mentality of the murderer. This was my first time reading After the Funeral, but, of course, it is the story that is loosely used...
Hercule Poirot, my favorite! No words need
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