The Pale Horse

A priest’s death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country pub…

To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning?

Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman’s head? Or was it when the priest’s assailant searched him so roughly he tore the clergyman’s cassock? Or could it have been the priest’s visit, just minutes before, to a woman on her death bed?

Or was there a deeper significance to the violent squabble which Mark Easterbrook had himself witnessed earlier?

Wherever the beginning lies, Mark and his sidekick, Ginger Corrigan, may soon have cause to wish they’d never found it…

Reviews

‘Wholesale murder by black magic…highly ingenious, wholly enjoyable.’
Evening Standard

‘The acknowledged queen of detective fiction’ Observer

‘A hundred years after her first novel, and we are all still standing in her shadow’ ANDREW TAYLOR

‘She gives us an insight into human nature that few, if any, have surpassed’ SUSAN LEWIS

‘Crime fiction writers around the globe owe Agatha Christie a massive debt’ PETER JAMES

‘Dame Agatha Christie has sold more books than all besides Shakespeare and the Bible’ DAVID BALDACCI

'Just one book is never enough…' VAL MCDERMID

About the author

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.