An edition of The Pale Horse (1961)

El misterio de Pale Horse

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An edition of The Pale Horse (1961)

El misterio de Pale Horse

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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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Editorial Molino
Pages
248

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Cover of: The Pale Horse
The Pale Horse
2020, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
Cover of: The Pale Horse
The Pale Horse
2017, Harper
paperback in English
Cover of: The Pale Horse
The Pale Horse
2002-12, St. Martin's Paperbacks
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: The Pale Horse
The Pale Horse
1992, HarperPaperbacks
in English
Cover of: The pale horse
The pale horse
1981, Fontana/Collins
in English
Cover of: El misterio de Pale Horse
El misterio de Pale Horse
1977, Editorial Molino
Paperback
Cover of: The Pale Horse
The Pale Horse
1972, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: Le Cheval Pale
Le Cheval Pale
/1970, Librairie des Champs-Elysées
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: The Pale Horse
The Pale Horse
1967-08, Pocket Books
Cover of: The pale horse
The pale horse
1964, Collins/Fontana Books
in English
Cover of: The Pale Horse
The Pale Horse
1962, Dodd, Mead & Company
in English

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Published in
Barcelona, España

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
248

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26224754M
ISBN 10
8427202989
Biblioteca Nacional de España Depósito Legal
B72891977

Work Description

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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