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The pale horse book agatha christie6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a novel which deals with the mysterious and the occult. The Pale Horse is said to be the home of three witches, led by the mysterious Thyrza Grey.Īlong with Ginger Corrigan, who Mark Easterbrook meets while visiting the fete, the two begin to investigate the strange, unexplained deaths of those on that list. Later, he visits a village fete with mystery writer, Ariadne Oliver, and hears of an old house, converted from an Inn. Later, he discovers that one of the girls has died and that her name was on the list of names that Father Gorman had hidden. Meanwhile, in the coffee bars of Chelsea (a setting that you feel Christie did not feel quite comfortable with), author Mark Easterbrook witnesses a cat fight between two girls. ![]() Later, the list of names is found and the police are, obviously, interested in what linked them to the woman who so urgently required Father Gorman to visit her. However, Father Gorman is destined never to reach his destination and is found struck dead in the fog. Father Gorman is troubled by what she tells him and, on the way home, he scribbles a list of names she has given him and tucks it into his shoe. Rather, this has a feel of Dennis Wheatley about it, with a real sense of the supernatural.Ī dying woman gives her last confession to a Catholic priest. This is not a cosy mystery, set in a stately home, amid the drawing rooms of the aristocracy. Published in 1961, this is a later Agatha Christie novel, and a slightly different plot to that which you might be expecting. ![]()
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