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Original Title: The Pale Horse
ISBN: 0312981716 (ISBN13: 9780312981716)
Edition Language: English
Series: Ariadne Oliver #5
Characters: Ariadne Oliver, Mark Easterbrook, Major Despard, Rhoda Dawes, Inspector Lejeune, Dr. Jim Corrigan, Ginger Corrigan, Mr. Venables, Zachariah Osbourne, Mr Bradley, Thyrza Grey, Sybil Stamfordis, Bella Webb, Thomasina Tuckerton, Pamela "Poppy" Stirling, Reverend Dane Calthrop, Mrs Dane Calthrop, Mrs Tuckerton, Mrs Coppins, Mrs Davis, Father Gorman, Eileen Brandon, Hermia Redcliffe, David Ardingley
Setting: United Kingdom
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Title:The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver #5)
Author:Agatha Christie
Book Format:Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 288 pages
Published:December 15th 2002 by Minotaur Books (first published 1961)
Categories:Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Classics

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"Wickedness...such wickedness...."
The dying woman turned to Father Gorman with agony in her eyes. "Stopped....It must be stopped....You will...."

The priest spoke with reassuring authority. "I will do what is necessary. You can trust me."

Father Gorman tucked the list of names she had given him into his shoe. It was a meaningless list; the names were of people who had nothing in common.

On his way home, Father Gorman was murdered. But the police found the list and when Mark Easterbrook came to inquire into the circumstances of the people listed, he began to discover a connection between them, and an ominous pattern....

Every name of that list was either already dead or, he suspected, marked for murder.

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Great mystery, even though there is no sign of Miss Marple.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with himA certain Mrs. Davis dies suddenly in a boarding house. Her death is not remarkable, but the list of peoples names that she shared with a priest before dying turns out to be very interesting indeed. This list includes the names of some people who have recently died of natural causes, or was it? When the priest is found murdered, the police are confounded by how it all ties together. Mark

I remember rereading this Christie several times in high school. I really enjoyed this non-Poirot and non-Marple story of the deaths of various people from flus and other normal causes. And if it weren't because of a number of odd little things about these deaths setting off main character Mark Easterbrook's questions, and the wonderful Ariadne Oliver's emphatic statements pushing Mark in useful directions, and the murder of a parish priest, the baddie could conceivably have continued on with

I have seen to versions of this done TV the ITV version had Miss Marple in it and was ghastly. The last was even worse the BBC did set in 1961 but was not right.Agatha Christie did lot of Hercule Poirot books and Miss Marple but she also did stand alone books such as And then their were None this one of those. One of her much later mystery books towards the end of her life with Macbeth hint and biblical over hints. Behold a Pale Horse and his name was death. She did love her poisons

Extremely dark and chilling - read with a stuffed animal or a huggable friend nearby! Very thrilling and powerful read, and definitely my favourite non-Poirot or Marple mystery, hands down. Definitely a tense and creepy affair; the atmosphere is very much like what I would imagine the dark streets of Whitechapel would be during the late 19th Century. Mark Easterbrook is a loveable hero, intelligent and brave, and you can't help but be nervous and root for him at the same time as he plunges

Re-read in light of new tv adaptation coming out in Feb 2020 with Rufus Sewell.With the material here, I can well see this being rather dark and scary... Ill post more once I see it :O)"Evil is nothing superhuman".`As much as I love Poirot and Marple, there is something even more appealing to a Christie book with a totally unknown 'investigator'. Mark Easterbrook senses all is not what it seems in a series of events that lead him to look into The Pale Horse. The narrative follows him as well as

Christie at her poisonous best. What sets apart this novel from her other writings is the development of the plot is not linear. There are interesting diversions to keep you glued till end with great deal of occult and witches in the plot. The inspiration for solving the murder appears to be too sudden. Mrs. Oliver without her friend Poirot manages to add that extra bit of fun and frolic.