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Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery (A New Hercule Poirot Mystery)

The New Hercule Poirot Mystery

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Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery (A New Hercule Poirot Mystery)

By: Sophie Hannah, Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
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Hercule Poirot returns in another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his ‘little grey cells’.

‘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.

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Critic Reviews

‘Sparkling second outing for Hannah's reimagined Poirot. The setting (posh Irish country house), the characters (country lawyers, creepy male secretary, stroppy flapper, etc) and the period vocabulary are all spot on, but it's the utter fiendish unpredictability of the plot that makes Sophie the new Agatha’ Sunday Times

‘An ingenious solution to the mystery of Closed Casket represents another satisfying addition to the Agatha Christie canon’ Irish Times

‘Top-class entertainment’ Woman & Home

‘Closed Casket is deviously plotted, deeply satisfying and does the grande dame of crime proud’ Good Housekeeping

‘A brand new (and fiendishly puzzling) case for Hercule Poirot – seriously, what could be more blissful?’ Saga Magazine

‘This mystery is enormously compulsive – keep ‘em coming! 5 stars’ Heat

‘Christie’s boots as a crime writer are hard to fill, but Hannah achieves it quietly and intelligently with Poirot-sized steps once again in Closed Casket… The whole book will not only delight Agatha Christie devotees but anyone who loves a good, well written murder mystery’ Devon Life

‘A brand new (and fiendishly puzzling) case for Hercule Poirot – seriously, what could be more blissful? … Gorgeous’ SAGA

‘This cunningly executed Christie tribute taps into the current vogue for Golden Age crime with its vintage plot, numerous possible motives and neatly contained setting’ METRO

'a literary marriage made in heaven!’ THE TIMES

‘a novel fizzing with ideas and spikey dialogue’ SUNDAY EXPRESS

‘an absolute gem for murder mystery fans’ CLOSER
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The book was interesting, but there was repetition in explanations of the detection process. However, a good plot, but quite verbose.

Good but verbose

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As an Agatha Christie tragic I thought this was just wonderful: great story and terrific narration.

Wonderful

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Sophie Hannah would have too be one of my top five authors, love love love her books 11/10

11/10

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The one thing I have always thought remarkable about Agatha Christie was her economy with words. She never wasted a single word, nothing is over explained or repeated, rarely is the audience patronised. I did not find this Sophie Hannah novel as crisp or efficient as Christie, and I felt like every little moment, action, character, behaviour was over explained. Poirot is well written, but as far as the rest... my English lecturers old adage ‘show your audience, don’t tell’ kept ringing in my ears. It is possible it’s all because of the sluggishness of the narration, Mr Rhind-Tutt feels perhaps a little too relaxed, or bored. I struggled to stay engaged. I will try and find a paperback version and give it another go! Not terrible just not Christie.

Difficult to get into

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A mystery that hands you the instructions to solve it at the beginning and knows you'll forget all about it.

Enjoyed every minute

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