![]() A Latin American woman recognised the signs and prevented a man from being murdered by his wife. In one case, a sick baby from Qatar who had taken thallium was cured when the nurse read The Pale Horse and recognised the symptoms. There are at least three documented cases where someone read about thallium poisoning in The Pale Horse, and a life was saved. ![]() ![]() In An Autobiography Christie refers to Mr P as striking her “as possible rather a dangerous man.” The man in question was pharmacist Mr P who instructed Christie in the preparation and dispensing of drugs during the First World War. ![]() When Agatha Christie wrote this story she had in her mind a man that she had met almost fifty years earlier. In The Pale Horse three “witches” claim to possess the power to curse people to death, but as the plot thickens it appears that all is not as it seems. The story, published in the UK in 1961, reflects a supernatural tone which is only really evident in a few of Christie’s novels. This month we delve into one of Agatha Christie’s darkest stories, The Pale Horse. Maybe the three women who run The Pale Horse public house, and who are rumoured to practice the ‘Dark Arts’, can provide some answers? Mark Easterbrook and his sidekick Ginger Corrigan are determined to find out. What was the killer looking for? And what had a dying woman confided to the priest on her death bed only hours earlier? When an elderly priest is murdered, the killer searches the victim so roughly that his already ragged cassock is torn in the process. ![]()
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