Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot Series)

by Agatha Christie

Overview

In Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery Sad Cypress, a woman damned by overwhelming evidence stands accused of murdering her romantic rival, and only Hercule Poirot stands between her and the gallows.

Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity, and the means to administer the fatal poison.

Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty. Hercule Poirot was all that stood between Elinor and the gallows.…

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062073945
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	08/30/2011
Series:	Hercule Poirot Series
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	9,377
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.68(d)
Lexile:	600L (what's this?)

About the Author

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976.

Date of Birth:

September 15, 1890

Date of Death:

January 12, 1976

Place of Birth:

Torquay, Devon, England

Education:

Home schooling

Website:

http://www.agathachristie.com

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What People are Saying About This

Elizabeth George

“What Agatha Christie taught me was all about the delicate placement of the red herring. She was the ultimate genius behind ‘by indirections shall we find directions out.’”

Robert Barnard

Elegiac, emotionally involving and the ingenuity and superb cluing put Sad Cypress among the very best of Christie's classic titles.

Editorial Reviews

Poirot solves another exciting case.

Daily Mail (London)

What Agatha Christie taught me was all about the delicate placement of the red herring. She was the ultimate genius behind ‘by indirections shall we find directions out.’

Elizabeth George

The clues are placed with impeccable fairness, and the solution will cause many readers to kick themselves.

Times Literary Supplement