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Dumb Witness - Agatha Christie

Description: ISBN 0007234465 / Author: Agatha Christie / Genre: Crime / Thriller / A facsimile first edition hardback of the Poirot book, famously ... more

Dumb Witness - Agatha Christie ... featuring Agatha Christie's own dog on the cover. Everyone blamed Emily's accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he didn't receive the letter until June 28th!by which time Emily was already dead! To mark the 80th anniversary of Hercule Poirot's first appearance, and to celebrate his renewed fortunes as a primetime television star, this title in a collection of facsimile first editions is the perfect way to experience Agatha Christie. Reproducing the original typesetting and format of the first edition from the Christie family's own archive, this book sports the original cover which has been painstakingly restored to its original glory.

Newest Review: ... had both the means and motive around to have committed the act, discovering the identity of the killer will not be an easy ... more

... one. "Dumb Witness" is a curious amalgamation, a mixture of a very intriguing detective story and a rather whimsical portrayal of the psychology and thoughts of the eponymous character within it. The witness, of course, is the terrier whose ball was supposedly left upon the stairs that resulted in Emily Arundel falling down them and the accounts of his thoughts (or, rather, the thoughts which Hastings interprets for him) are relatively amusing but do nothing to bring us further in our search for the murde...more

Price Comparison for Dumb Witness - Agatha Christie

	Dumb Witness (Agatha Christie Collection) Pages: 256, Edition: New Ed, Paperback, Collins Crime Last Update 11.12.2009 06:11	£ 1.70
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Dumb Witness - Agatha Christie: Poirot has an almost cynical reason for investigation. (1485 words)
by - written on 18/03/09 (Very useful, 78 readings)
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Emily Arundel is a shrewd woman who is prepared to believe the worst of everybody and everything and, consequently, when several of her relatives all visit her in April she harbours no illusions that they are doing so purely out of a familial affection towards her. The motive in almost every, if not every, case is that of money. Emily is wealthy and her nephew and nieces and associated partners stand to inherit a fair amount of income when she dies. Attempts to gain some of this money prior to her death are swiftly rebuffed by her and she refuses to entertain the concept of yielding to any wishes, even when it is suggested not to do so might place her in grave danger. ... Read the complete review