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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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Mar 29, 2020 Calum Fisher rated it liked it · review of another edition

A strange and much-admired late-Christie oddity, influenced it seems by the folk-horror novels of Dennis Wheatley. Highly readable and mostly engaging, I'm not sure everything hangs together or that the darkness of its witchcraft-at-the-vicarage story is made full use of (something which Sarah Phelps' recent BBC adaptation sensibly corrected), but the conjurer's illusion here is marvellously done - the solution was always in plain sight, yet somehow you missed it. This is what Christie does bett ...more

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Jun 28, 2018 Jill rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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It did seem familiar to me so I probably had read it before, but I had forgotten most of it. I did find myself getting a bit annoyed with all the coincidences. I do realise that coincidences do happen, but there were really too many here to be plausible. Having said that I did enjoy the book and the ending was great.
The characters were well done , even the Hamlet style three witches. The vicar's wife shone and ofcourse Ginger was an excellent main one. Easterbrook seemed a bit unintelligent to m ...more

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