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Ordeal by Innocence

Agatha Christie

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Considered by critics as one of the best of Agatha Christie's later novels, and a personal favorite for Christie herself, Ordeal by Innocence is a psychological thriller involving crimes from both past and present.

According to the courts, Jacko Argyle bludgeoned his mother to death with a poker. The sentence was life imprisonment. But when Dr. Arthur Calgary arrives with the proof that confirms Jacko's innocence, it is too late--Jacko died behind bars following a bout of pneumonia. Worse still, the doctor's revelations reopen old wounds in the family, increasing the likelihood that the real murderer will strike again.

Book Details

  • Publisher: William Morrow & Company
  • Publish Date: Feb 1st, 2011
  • Pages: 288
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.30in - 0.90in - 0.48lb
  • EAN: 9780062073525
  • Categories: Mystery & Detective - TraditionalCrimeHistorical - General

About the Author

Christie, Agatha: -

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

Praise for this book

"Family tensions and suspicions are adroitly handled, and the solution is characteristically surprising." -- New York Times

"Agatha Christie is grade A fun." -- Phillip Margolin, New York Times bestselling author