Description
‘What
I intend to say to you will come as a shock . . .’
Lady Athelinda Playford has planned a house party at
her mansion in Clonakilty, County Cork, but it is no ordinary gathering. As
guests arrive, Lady Playford summons her lawyer to make an urgent change to her
will – one she intends to announce at dinner that night. She has decided to cut
off her two children without a penny and leave her fortune to someone who has
only weeks to live . . .
Among Lady Playford’s guests are two men she has never
met – the famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, and Inspector Edward
Catchpool of Scotland Yard. Neither knows why he has been invited . . . until
Poirot starts to wonder if Lady Playford expects a murderer to strike. But why
does she seem so determined to provoke, in the presence of a possible killer?
When the crime is committed in spite of Poirot’s best
efforts to stop it, and the victim is not who he expected it to be, will he be
able to find the culprit and solve the mystery?
Following the phenomenal global success
of The Monogram Murders, which was published to critical acclaim following a
co-ordinated international launch in September 2014, international best-selling
crime writer Sophie Hannah has been commissioned by Agatha Christie Limited to
pen a second fully-authorised Poirot novel. The new book marks the centenary of
the creation of Christie’s world-famous detective Hercule Poirot, introduced in
her first book The Mysterious Affair at Styles.