The Pale Horse
To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning? Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman's head? Or the priest's visit, just minutes before, to a woman on her death bed? Or was...
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To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning?
Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman's head? Or the priest's visit, just minutes before, to a woman on her death bed? Or was there a deeper significance to the violent squabble which Mark Easterbrook had himself witnessed earlier?
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Format: hardcover
Publish date: 2003
Publisher: Planet Three Publishing
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
I randomly chose this one from the Christie books on my kindle during the weather related blackout. I didn't know what to expect as I didn't easily have access to the synopsis (and I believe my phone was in my car charging when I first started this one), so I went into it rather blind. I enjoyed t...
I went into The Pale Horse without much hope that I would enjoy it - I'm down to the last 8 (now 7) Christie novels, and I'm reserving the ones that I thought would be the best bets for enjoyment to the end. The Pale Horse was published in 1961, between A Cat Among the Pigeons and The Mirror Crack...
The non-Poirot or Jane Marple books are usually hit or miss for me. However, Christie does a great job with this one. The book is slow moving at first. We follow a man named Mark Easterbrook who narrates the majority of the book. Initially we don't exactly know what's going on, we just know that the...
Not my favorite Christie Novel. The premise is interesting---can a witch murder through black magic? The mystery is, as always, well done. All the clues are there. The supporting cast provides interesting options for suspects. There is plenty of tension in the last quarter of the novel. However....
Not my favorite Christie Novel.The premise is interesting---can a witch murder through black magic? The mystery is, as always, well done. All the clues are there. The supporting cast provides interesting options for suspects. There is plenty of tension in the last quarter of the novel.However......