The Pale Horse

A list of names hidden in a dead woman's shoe sets this Agatha Christie mystery moving. People on that list begin dying, apparently of natural causes, and the trail runs toward a country inn called The Pale Horse and the rumours of witchcraft attached to it. Mark Easterbrook takes up the question the novel keeps alive until its final chapters: whether something supernatural is at work, or whether a very human method of killing has been dressed up to look like one. Christie builds her atmosphere from superstition, suggestion and fear, then applies ordinary detective logic to all of it. What's inside: • A murder method that hides behind belief in curses and dark ritual • Mark Easterbrook as an amateur investigator rather than a series detective • Themes of greed, deception and the pressure of suggestion on the mind • An English village setting used for unease rather than cosiness Recommended for Christie readers and for anyone who likes crime fiction with an eerie edge, available at Boipoka.