02336cam a2200445 i 4500 271241278 TxAuBib 20160831120000.0 160824s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2016029150 9780062458827 HRD 0062458825 HRD TxAuBib rda Hannah, Sophie, 1971- Closed casket : the new Hercule Poirot novel / Sophie Hannah. Closed casket : the new Hercule Poirot mystery. First edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016] ©2016. 302 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Agatha Christie"--Cover. "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 will. 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? 20160831. MG. eam. Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) Fiction. Private investigators Belgium Fiction. Private investigators England Fiction. Women authors Fiction. Disinheritance Fiction. Nineteen twenties Fiction. Historical fiction. Wealth Fiction. England Fiction. Mystery fiction. Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.