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Dos muchachas, Tomasina Tuckerton y Lou Ellis, disputan en un bar de Chelsea; ésta le arranca a aquélla un puñado de cabellos. Mark Easterbrook presencia la discusión, y algunos días después lee que Tomasina ha muerto en el hospital. El presbítero Gorman es llamado para asistir a una moribunda; ésta parece confiarle algo muy grave y después muere. El sacerdote entra en un bar, pide una hoja de papel y apunta varios nombres, que guarda en su zapato. Poco después lo atracan y lo matan a golpes, en un callejón, pero no le quitan el papel, que encuentra la policía.
Una de las personas que figuran en la lista es Lady Hesket-Dubois, madrina de Easterbrook, que ha muerto varios meses antes. Otra es Mary Delafontaine, quien también ha muerto. Una prima de Mark, Rhoda Despard, da una fiesta a la que asiste, firmando sus obras, la escritora policíaca Ariadne Oliver. Allí se habla de brujas y de unas mujeres de la vecindad que parecen serlo: Bella Webb, Sybil y Thyrza Grey, que ocupan Pale Horse, una antigua hostería del lugar. Una tal Poppy se ha referido a ellas, diciendo que cuando alguien quiere deshacerse de una persona molesta no tiene más que dirigirse a este lugar.
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To understand the strange events at The Pale Horse inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning? Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman's head? Or the priest's visit, just minutes before, to a woman on her death bed? Or was there a deeper significance to the violent squabble which Mark Easterbrook had himself witnessed earlier?The novel is the only one to feature Ariadne Oliver where she solves a crime in the absence of Hercule Poirot. It was published in 1961 by William Collins Sons & Co. in London, and in 1962 by Dodd, Mead & Co. in New York. It was adapted by Anglia TV in the UK in 1996. The title of this book comes from the Revelation of St John the Divine, chapter 6, verse 8. "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him..." This is another novel where Christie is able to indulge her interest in the supernatural.
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