Hercule Poirot's Silent Night

Resumen del libro

The world's greatest detective, Hercule Poirot - legendary star of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile and A Haunting in Venice - puts his little grey cells to work solving a baffling Christmas mystery.CAN HERCULE POIROT SOLVE A BAFFLING MURDER MYSTERY IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS?It's 19 December 1931. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool are called to investigate the murder of a man in the apparent safe haven of a Norfolk hospital ward. Catchpool's mother, the irrepressible Cynthia, insists that Poirot stays in a crumbling mansion by the coast, so that they can all be together for the festive period while Poirot solves the case.

Cynthia's friend Arnold is soon to be admitted to that same hospital and his wife is convinced he will be the killer's next victim, though she refuses to explain why.Poirot has less than a week to solve the crime and prevent more murders, if he is to escape from this nightmare scenario and get home in time for Christmas. Meanwhile, someone else - someone utterly ruthless - also has ideas about what ought to happen to Hercule Poirot . .

Biografía del autor

Sophie Hannah es autora de nueve thrillers psicológicos que han sido bestsellers internacionales, publicados en veinte países y adaptados para televisión. Su novela The Carrier ganó en 2013 el Specsavers National Book Award Crime Book of the Year. Hannah es miembro honorario de la junta del Lucy Cavendish College, en Cambridge, y es también una reconocida poeta, nominada para el T.S. Eliot Prize.