The Pale Horse
When an elderly priest is murdered, the killer searches the victim so roughly that his already ragged cassock is torn in the process. What was the killer looking for? And what had a dying woman confided to the priest on her deathbed only hours earlier? Mark Easterbrook and his sidekick Ginger...
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When an elderly priest is murdered, the killer searches the victim so roughly that his already ragged cassock is torn in the process. What was the killer looking for? And what had a dying woman confided to the priest on her deathbed only hours earlier? Mark Easterbrook and his sidekick Ginger Corrigan are determined to find out. Maybe the three women who run The Pale Horse public house, and who are rumored to practice the “Dark Arts,” can provide some answers?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780062074119 (0062074113)
Publish date: June 28th 2011
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages no: 272
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......
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