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Closed Casket (New Hercule Poirot, Bk 2) (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
Closed Casket - New Hercule Poirot, Bk 2 - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Sophie Hannah, Agatha Christie (Creator), Julian Rhind-Tutt (Narrator) The world' s most famous detective -- and Agatha Christie's most famous creation -- returns in this new novel. — "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 w... more »ill. 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?
Performed by Julian Rhind-Tutt. 9 CDs (approximately 10 hr.)« less