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The Pale Horse (original 1961; edition 1963)

by Agatha Christie

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Title:The Pale Horse
Authors:Agatha Christie
Info:Pocket Books (1963), Paperback
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Tags:Mystery

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The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie (1961)

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    Moving Finger by Agatha Christie (Porua)
    Porua: The narrator of The Pale Horse, Mark Easterbrook, reminds me of the narrator of another Agatha Christie book. Jerry Barton from The Moving Finger. In both of these stories the urban hero goes to a small town and gets entangled in a spine chilling mystery. Another thing that these two books have in common is an unconventional old lady named Mrs. Dane Calthrop, one of the more unique creations of Christie.… (more)
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One of my very favourite Agatha Christies. (Loved the television adaptation from ITV in 1997 - worth checking out if you haven't seen it). Complex plot involving witchcraft and murder, it's atmospheric and maintains a sense of internal logic (which can't be said for every Agatha Christie novel). Very enjoyable.

© Koplowitz 2012

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  Ant.Harrison | Apr 28, 2013 |
Mais uma leitura que dou como terminada e outro sucesso estrondoso. Posso afirmar, sem medo de errar, que esta é uma das melhores colecções que estão no mercado, este livro é já o numero 73 e espero poder ainda ler muitos mais.
Novamente, Agatha Christie veio presentear-nos com mais um romance policial cheio de mistérios e de pontas soltas que nos traz momentos muito bem passados. Confesso que o verdadeiro assassino estava mesmo na minha frente, mas acabei por não o conseguir desvendar e ficar mesmo pasmada no momento em que ele é apresentado no livro.
É um livro fácil de ler, mas que nos prende desde a primeira página e que ao longo da história nos faz ansiar para que chegue ao fim, para que seja finalmente descoberto o assassino e também apresentada a forma como tudo se passou realmente. Uma história que mistura lógica com bruxaria e que muitas vezes nos vai confundido, mas penso mesmo que essa era a missão, para que não chegássemos logo à resposta correcta.
Espero ansiosamente pelo próximo volume.

http://viv-omundoencantadodoslivros.blogspot.pt/2012/09/asaopiniao-o-cavalo-amarelode-agatha.html ( )
  anokas2757 | Mar 17, 2013 |
Mais uma leitura que dou como terminada e outro sucesso estrondoso. Posso afirmar, sem medo de errar, que esta é uma das melhores colecções que estão no mercado, este livro é já o numero 73 e espero poder ainda ler muitos mais.
Novamente, Agatha Christie veio presentear-nos com mais um romance policial cheio de mistérios e de pontas soltas que nos traz momentos muito bem passados. Confesso que o verdadeiro assassino estava mesmo na minha frente, mas acabei por não o conseguir desvendar e ficar mesmo pasmada no momento em que ele é apresentado no livro.
É um livro fácil de ler, mas que nos prende desde a primeira página e que ao longo da história nos faz ansiar para que chegue ao fim, para que seja finalmente descoberto o assassino e também apresentada a forma como tudo se passou realmente. Uma história que mistura lógica com bruxaria e que muitas vezes nos vai confundido, mas penso mesmo que essa era a missão, para que não chegássemos logo à resposta correcta.
Espero ansiosamente pelo próximo volume.

http://viv-omundoencantadodoslivros.blogspot.pt/2012/09/asaopiniao-o-cavalo-amarelode-agatha.html ( )
  anokas2757 | Mar 17, 2013 |
Since Agatha Christie's mysteries have been best-sellers in Russia, some of them pique my curiosity and are bound (no pun intended) to creep onto my bookshelves as ideal rented-summer cottage-stormy-night reading. This one is satisfyingly unusual and sinister, so will be kept as possible bedside reading for visiting relatives. Given the plot machinations, I'll reassure them afterwards that the plot has no bearing on my attitude to or intentions concerning my own flesh and blood.
1 vote andreajorgensen | Jan 2, 2013 |
Once again, Agatha Christie completely fooled me! All the clues were there - and she misdirected me as always! One of the reasons I love reading her books so much! ( )
  ClifSven | Aug 24, 2011 |
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There are two methods, it seems to me, of approaching this strange business of the Pale Horse.
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Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who will never be important, because he’ll always be less than a man.
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    "WICKEDNESS ... SUCH WICKEDNESS ..."

The dying woman turned to Father Gorman with agony in her eyes, "Stopped ... It must be stopped ... You will ... "
The priest spoke with reassuring authority. "I will do what is necessary. You can trust me."
Father Gorman tucked the list of names she had given him into his shoe. It was a meaningless list: the names were of people who had nothing in common.
On his way home, Father Gorman was murdered. But the police found the list, and when Mark Easterbrook came to inquire into the circumstances of the people listed, he began to discover a connection between them, and an ominous pattern:

EVERY PERSON ON THAT LIST WAS EITHER ALREADY DEAD - OR, HE SUSPECTED, MARKED FOR MURDER!
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Was it really the Thomasina Tuckerton--dropout heiress turned bohemian beat girl--seen in a cafe brawl with another woman? Her obituary confirms it. Thomasina's unfortunate demise would have passed unnoticed if it hadn't been for the priest who suffered a fatal blow at the hand of a stranger only days later. What's the connection? A list of names hidden in father Gorman's shoes--among them, Miss Tuckerton's. It leads to a former country inn, now a house called, The Pale Horse, and a sinister pattern woven by three unusual ladies--a psychic, a medium, and a witch--each with a secret of her own.

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"When an elderly priest is murdered, the killer searches the victim so roughly that his already ragged cassock is torn in the process. What was the killer looking for? And what had a dying woman confided to the priest on her deathbed only hours earlier? Mark Easterbrook and his sidekick Ginger Corrigan are determined to find out. Maybe the three women who run The Pale Horse public house, and who are rumored to practice the 'Dark Arts, ' can provide some answers?"--P. [4] of cover.… (more)

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