The other reintroduced Christie’s earlier thoughts about “Voodoo etc., White Cocks, Arsenic? Childish stuff – work on the mind and what can the law do to you? Love Potions and Death Potions, – the aphrodisiac and the cup of poison.
One, a book “would start somehow with a list of names … “. More about this story: The Pale Horse combined two ideas that Agatha Christie had been considering. But where exactly was the beginning? Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman’s head? Or was it when the priest’s assailant searched him so roughly he tore the clergyman’s cassock? Or could it have been 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? Wherever the beginning lies, Mark and his sidekick, Ginger Corrigan, may soon have cause to wish they’d never found it. Synopsis: To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. The novel features her novelist detective Ariadne Oliver as a minor character, and reflects in tone the supernatural novels of Dennis Wheatley who was then at the height of his popularity.įirst sentence: The Espresso machine behind my shoulder hissed like an angry snake.
First published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1961, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión en castellano desplazarse hacia abajo
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