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The final POIROT omnibus featuring the last four appearances of the detectives side-kick the sleuthing crime novelist Ariadne Oliver: Third Girl Halloween Party Elephants Can Remember and The Pale Horse. Poirot and Mrs Oliver continue their sleuthing in the 1960s in four uncharacteristically modern novels with an added twist of danger...Third Girl Poirot finally admits he is growing old as a perplexed girl thinks she may have killed someone. Here Christie dragged Poirot into the swinging 60s and effectively squared him up against a world featuring sex drugs and hippies. Halloween Party A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples. This was only the second time Christie wrote about the death of a child and is all the more engrossing for it. Elephants Can Remember An old husband
and wife double murder has never been solved - until now. This was the very last Poirot story that Agatha Christie wrote and garnered good reviews. The Pale Horse A priests death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country inn. This bonus novel featured Mrs Oliver for once without Poirot and was one of Christies darkest stories blending witchcraft and murder.
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The final POIROT omnibus featuring the last four appearances of the detectives side-kick the sleuthing crime novelist Ariadne Oliver: Third Girl Halloween Party Elephants Can Remember & The Pale Horse. Poirot & Mrs Oliver continue their sleuthing in the 1960s in four uncharacteristically modern novels with an added twist of danger... Third Girl Poirot finally admits he is growing old as a perplexed girl thinks she may have killed someone. Here Christie dragged Poirot into the swinging 60s & effectively squared him up against a world featuring sex drugs & hippies. Halloween Party A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples. This was only the second time Christie wrote about the death of a child & is all the more engrossing for it. Elephants Can Remember An old husband & wife double murder has never been solved
- until now. This was the very last Poirot story that Agatha Christie wrote & garnered good reviews. The Pale Horse A priests death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country inn. This bonus novel featured Mrs Oliver for once without Poirot & was one of Christies darkest stories blending witchcraft & murder.

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