Closed casket The new Hercule Poirot mystery

Sophie Hannah, 1971-

Sound recording - 2016

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.

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Subjects
Genres
Mystery fiction
Historical fiction
Published
New York, NY : Harper Audio [2016]
Language
English
Main Author
Sophie Hannah, 1971- (-)
Other Authors
Agatha Christie, 1890-1976 (creator), Julian Rhind-Tutt, 1968- (narrator)
Edition
Unabridged
Item Description
Title from container.
Physical Description
9 audio discs (approximately 10 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN
9780062561763
Contents unavailable.
Review by 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.

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