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Beautiful, young Elinor Carlisle stands serenely in the dock accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence is damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, one man still presumes Elinor is innocent until proven guilty; Hercule Poirot is all that stands between Elinor and the gallows...
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Agatha Christie was born in 1890 and created the detective Hercule Poirot in her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920). She achieved wide popularity with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) and produced a total of eighty novels and short-story collections over six decades. Twenty-four of Christie's best whodunits are now available from Black Dog & Leventhal as part of their bestselling hardcover Agatha Christie Collection.
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Elinor Carlisle has everything, so when she's to be tried for murder, everyone is shocked. Christie's clever plotting keeps even the most practiced sleuths on the trail until the very end of this topsy-turvy story. David Suchet renders each character with great individuality, interest, and seeming innocence, adding to the intrigue. Each of the stereotypes is fun, and even acceptable, under Suchet's influence. Listeners are in for an added treat because SAD CYPRESS is also one of Christie's best efforts. Not just for mystery fans, this portrait of manners will have wide appeal among fiction lovers. S.G.B. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherDell
- Publication date1976
- ISBN 10 0006133088
- ISBN 13 9780006133087
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages224
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: VG+/GD/ND. y 1st. Edition, late impression. (18th.). Fontana, 1970-01-01. 1st. Edition, late impression. (18th.). VG+/GD/ND. Box X41 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 18th.* Date of Publication: 1976 (1940/1959) * Publisher: Fontana Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated stiff card covers showing a rose, a tea strainer and a hypodermic. Black titles spine and face. Some shelf wear to edges & corners and splits to tail of spine. Some darkening & marks. Front cover creased. GD.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, light age colouration to pages. Some age darkening to edges especially to top. VG.* Illustrations: NONE.* Pages: 189 pp. text. iii pp. ads.* Description: This book was first published in the UK in 1940 by The Collins Crime Club. The title is drawn from a song in Shakespeare's play, Twelfth Night. Elinor Carlisle is engaged to be married to Roddy Welman. She receives an anonymous letter claiming that someone is "sucking up" to their wealthy aunt, Laura Welman, from whom Elinor and Roddy expect to inherit a sizeable fortune. Her Aunt is suffering after a first stroke and has been trying to persuade her doctor to give her a swift release but he refuses. Unfortunately she has a second stroke and dies intestate but there are numerous queries about her death. The novel was the first novel in the Poirot series set at least partly in the courtroom, with lawyers and witnesses exposing the facts underlying Poirot's solution to the crimes.* This is a NEAR VG+ text copy of the 1st/18th. thus with some age and wear reducing it to GD.* 192 pp. 1970-01-01. n. Seller Inventory # 10097
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