Ordeal by Innocence
Author(s): Agatha Christie
The Argyle family is far from pleased to discover one of its number has been posthumously pardoned for murder - if Jacko Argyle didn't kill his mother, who did? Dr. Arthur Calgary takes a ferry across the Rubicon River to Sunny Point, the home of the Argyle family. A year before, the matriarch of the family was murdered and a son, Jack, was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. Throughout the trial Jack had maintained his innocence, claiming he was hitchhiking on the night of the murder and he had been picked up by a middle-aged man in a dark car. Unable to locate this mystery man the police viewed Jack's as a lie. Calgary was the stranger in question, but he arrives to late for Jack - who succumbs to pneumonia after serving just six months of his sentence. Feeling a sense of duty to the Argyles, Calgary is surprised when his revelation has a disturbing effect on the family - it means one of the family is a murderer!
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'Family tensions and suspicions are adroitly handled, and the solution is characteristically surprising' - New York Times 'Has the particular distinction of presenting a new temporary detective in place of Poirot or Miss Marple.' - New York Herald Tribune Book Review
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.
General Fields
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- : HarperCollins Publishers
- : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- : 0.272
- : 01 June 2011
- : 190mm X 126mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 June 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Agatha Christie
- : Hardback
- : Facsimile edition
- : 823.912
- : 256