The Killings at Kingfisher Hill
The New Hercule Poirot Mystery
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3.9 • 24 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Named a New York Times Best Book to Give
The world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot—legendary
star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and Death on
the Nile—returns to solve a delectably twisty mystery in this “masterful
and multi-layered puzzle...adding a new dimension to a much-loved series”
(NPR).
“Yet again, the diminutive man with the little gray cells
delivers the goods.” —Wall Street Journal
Hercule Poirot is traveling by luxury passenger coach from
London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate. Richard Devonport has summoned
the renowned detective to prove that his fiancée, Helen, is innocent of the
murder of his brother, Frank. Poirot will have only days to investigate before
Helen is hanged, but there is one strange condition attached: he must conceal
his true reason for being there from the rest of the Devonport family.
The coach is forced to stop when a distressed woman demands
to get off, insisting that if she stays in her seat, she will be murdered.
Although the rest of the journey passes without anyone being harmed, Poirot’s
curiosity is aroused, and his fears are later confirmed when a body is
discovered with a macabre note attached . . .
Could this new murder and the peculiar incident
on the coach be clues to solving the mystery of who killed Frank Devonport? And
if Helen is innocent, can Poirot find the true culprit in time to save her from
the gallows?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Hannah displays her superior ability to devise mind-blowing setups in her fourth authorized continuation of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot series (after 2018's The Mystery of Three Quarters). In 1931, Poirot agrees to come to Kingfisher Hill, the country estate of the Devonport family in Surrey, at the request of Richard Devonport. The previous year, Richard's older brother, Frank, died from a fall at Kingfisher Hill, and Frank's fianc e, Helen Acton, who confessed to intentionally pushing him, has a date with a hangman. Richard, who's Helen's current fianc , believes she's innocent, and has arranged for Poirot and Scotland Yard's Insp. Edward Catchpool to visit the estate and investigate under the pretense of being interested in a board game Richard's father has invented. On the luxury motor coach from London to Kingfisher Hill, the pair encounter a distraught woman, who, when forced to sit in the one available seat, declares that a man told her that to sit there would mean her death. Then another passenger confesses to a murder. Hannah provides logical and reasonable answers to every oddity. Fans of classic fair-play puzzle mysteries will clamor for more.
