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The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)

Agatha Christie

Start date: July 1, 2018

Finish date: July 31, 2018

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Feb 10, 2020 Nancy Oakes added it · review of another edition

Shelves: 1960s, crime-fiction, crime-fiction-uk

I'm thinking 3.5 or so. I made today a laundry day so I could read in between loads. I liked the plot, but found it sort of uneven in the telling -- more to come about this book very shortly.

In the meantime, hold out for the newest adaptation coming to Amazon Prime tv and do NOT watch the version that for some screwed-up reason has Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple in it. Miss Marple isn't in this book. ...more

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Dec 02, 2022 Teri-K rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I remember the first time I read this; I was a teenager and just discovering Christie's books. This was well before the internet, so I have no idea how I knew what the solution of the book was before I started. I suspect I'd read about it in some other mystery. However it happened, I knew exactly how the people would be dying from the first page, and it didn't matter. It also didn't matter that I remembered it many decades later, because Christie throws in enough red herrings to satisfy any hung ...more

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Jan 21, 2017 Nanosynergy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mysteries-thrillers-espionage, series, fiction, reviewed, british, fiction-1960s, 2017read

One of Christie's books featuring her fictional mystery writer, Ariadne Oliver. Draws on the witches in Macbeth - apparently a favorite of Christie's given her various mentions and quotations from it in a few of her books. A story of murder for hire with a supernatural twist. ...more

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