The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly to Captain Hastings: there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara, Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife Daisy, and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington.
So Hastings was shocked when Poirot declared that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, the ageing detective was crippled with arthritis, but had his deductive instincts finally deserted him?...
The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly to Captain Hastings: there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara, Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife Daisy, and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington.
So Hastings was shocked when Poirot declared that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, the ageing detective was crippled with arthritis, but had his deductive instincts finally deserted him?...
| ISBN-13: | 9780061741005 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Publication date: | 10/03/2006 |
| Series: | Hercule Poirot Series |
| Sold by: | HARPERCOLLINS |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 240 |
| Sales rank: | 14,876 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
“I’m constantly surprised by the books. Because I think about books a lot before I start writing them, I don’t write structure and a formal outline. But I carry a notebook around with me for about a year before I start writing and I write down quotes and thoughts and ideas and snippets of overheard […]
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From the acclaimed author of Murder on the Orient Express, eight short mystery stories featuring Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.
Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings are on a bus to North Devon to help
