Closed casket : the new Hercule Poirot mystery

Format:

Audio disc

Title:

Closed casket : the new Hercule Poirot mystery

Other title(s):

Agatha Christie closed casket

Author:

Hannah, Sophie, 1971- author.

ISBN:

9780062561763

Edition:

Unabridged.

Publication:

[New York] : Harper Audio, 2016.

Physical Description:

9 audio discs (10 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.

Series title(s):

Hercule Poirot mysteries.

General Note:

Title from container.

Compact discs.

Summary:

Lady Athelinda Playford -- one of the world's most beloved children's authors -- springs 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.

Personal Subject:

Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst01068127

Subject(s):

Private investigators -- England -- Fiction.

Women authors -- Fiction.

Wealth -- Fiction.

Disinheritance -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Audiobooks.

Fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Added Author:

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976,

Rhind-Tutt, Julian, 1968-

Holds:

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Woodburn Public Library	Christie	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Newberg Public Library	FICTION CHRISTIE	Searching... Unknown
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Searching... Stayton Public Library	CHRISTIE Agatha	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

Internationally bestselling author Sophie Hannah and the world's favorite detective Hercule Poirot return in this follow-up to The Monogram Murders , the national bestseller hailed by the Washington Post as -literary magic.-

Author Notes

Sophie Hannah was born in 1971 in Manchester, England. She is a bestselling, award-winning poet. Hannah went to the University of Manchester and published her first book of poems, The Hero and the Girl Next Door, at the age of 24. In 2004 she won first prize in the Daphne Du Maurier Festival Short Story Competition for her psychological suspense story, The Octopus Nest.

Hannah was recently chosen by Agatha Christie's estate to resurrect her beloved detective, Hercule Poirot. Her subsequent novel, The Monogram Murders, was published in 2014.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Hannah's second estate-sanctioned addition to Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot finds the brilliant, amusingly self-centered Belgian sleuth in 1929, attending a house party from hell. Neither he nor Scotland Yard Insp. Edward Catchpool, the novel's thoughtful narrator and Poirot's friend, know why they've been invited by Lady Athelinda Playford to her County Cork mansion in the Irish Free State. Other guests include Athie's children, their significant others, her attorneys, and her ailing secretary. When Athie announces she's drafted a new will leaving everything to her secretary, Poirot and Catchpool realize their presence is intended to keep the peace. Someone commits murder regardless, and the detecting duo must determine whodunit. Hannah's entertaining pastiche is brim-full of character interactions, backstories, smart chat, and diabolical twists of plot, most of which Rhind-Tutt, performing as Catchpool, delivers in the cool, measured voice of a professional Yard observer. There are moments, however, when the inspector's almost steely British reserve gives way to self-doubt, anger, sorrow, and even petulance, and Rhind-Tutt shifts his narration accordingly. As for Poirot, Rhind-Tutt's rendition resembles that of the sleuth's longtime television interpreter, David Suchet. A wise man doesn't meddle with perfection. A Morrow hardcover. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.