Closed Casket : : the new Hercule Poirot Mystery

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Call Number: Mystery / Hannah, Sophie, Adult Book / Fiction / Mystery / Historical / Hannah, Sophie
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Mystery / Hannah, Sophie	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Mystery / Hannah, Sophie	4-week checkout	Due 05-24-2024
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Mystery / Historical / Hannah, Sophie	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Mystery / Historical / Hannah, Sophie	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Mystery / Historical / Hannah, Sophie	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Mystery / Historical / Hannah, Sophie	4-week checkout	Due 05-04-2024
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Mystery / Historical / Hannah, Sophie	4-week checkout	Due 05-21-2024

"What I intend to say to you will come as a shock ..." With these words, 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. Among Lady Playford's visitors are two strangers: the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard. Neither knows why he has been invited -- until Poirot begins to wonder if Lady Playford expects a murder. But why does she seem so determined to provoke a killer? And why -- when the crime is committed despite Poirot's best efforts to stop it -- does the identity of the victim make no sense at all?

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Aren’t the originals always better? submitted by sjarvis on July 21, 2019, 9:01pm Not always! Sophie Hannah did a wonderful job creating a new Poirot mystery. If you love Agatha Christie I think you’ll enjoy this

It’s not Agatha submitted by mandevil on April 16, 2021, 11:44am It was ok, but not great. Seemed to really drag. Not sure how they are able to use Agatha Christie’s name. I would put it in the fanfic genre.

No spoilers but submitted by JPollak on August 15, 2022, 7:56pm No spoilers, but you know the whole time that the title of the book has to come in somehow and the way it does seems to me to be quite a reach. It's alright as a story on its own, but not the same thing as the rest of the Agatha Christie series.