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When a mock murder game staged for charity threatens to turn into the real thing, the intrepid Hercule Poirot is called in to take part in this Dead Man's Folly, a classic from the queen of suspense, Agatha Christie.
Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well-known crime writer, agrees to organize their murder hunt.
Despite weeks of meticulous planning, at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot for his expert assistance. Instinctively, she senses that's something sinister is about to happen....
Porua: Dead Man's Folly is another book in the series of books that features Hercule Poirot with his friend Mrs. Ariadne Oliver. Cards on the Table is the book in which Poirot meets Mrs. Oliver for the first time and what an eventful meeting that turns out to be! Anyone who enjoys the friendship Poirot and Mrs. Oliver share must read Cards on the Table to know how this endearing and long lasting alliance started.… (más)
El matrimonio Folliat, encargado de organizar la fiesta del pueblo, decide encomendarle a su amiga y escritora de libros de misterio Ariadne Oliver la planificación de un falso asesinato, para entretenimiento de los presentes. Ella acepta encantada, y se pone manos a la obra. Tras varias semanas de planificación, Ariadne acude en el último momento a su amigo Hércules Poirot para obtener su valiosa ayuda, ya que sus instintos le dicen que algo siniestro se incuba detrás del divertimento. Efectivamente, Poirot no tardará en descubrir que nada ni nadie es lo que aparenta... ni siquiera el falso asesinato.
El matrimonio Folliat, encargado de organizar la fiesta del pueblo, decide encomendarle a su amiga y escritora de libros de misterio Ariadne Oliver la planificación de un falso asesinato, para entretenimiento de los presentes. Ella acepta encantada, y se pone manos a la obra. Tras varias semanas de planificación, Ariadne acude en el último momento a su amigo Hércules Poirot para obtener su valiosa ayuda, ya que sus instintos le dicen que algo siniestro se incuba detrás del divertimento. Efectivamente, Poirot no tardará en descubrir que nada ni nadie es lo que aparenta... ni siquiera el falso asesinato.
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To Humphrey and Peggie Trevelyan
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It was Miss Lemon, Poirot's efficient secretary, who took the telephone call.
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"I can't help you," said Mrs Oliver. "I can't imagine who could have done it. At least, of course, I can imagine - I can imagine anything! That's the trouble with me. I can imagine things now - this minute. I could even make them sound all right, but of course none of them would be true. I mean, she could have been murdered by someone who just likes murdering girls but that's too easy - and, anyway, too much of a coincidence that somebody should be at this fete who wanted to murder a girl. And how would he know that Marlene was in the boathouse? Or she might have known some secret about somebody's love affairs, or she may have recognised somebody who was concealing his identity - or she may have known a secret about where some treasure was buried during the war. Or the man in the launch may have thrown somebody into the river and she saw it from the window of the boathouse - or she may even have got hold of some very important message in secret code and not known what it was herself."
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There are some things that one has to face quite alone. . . ."
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In 1954, Agatha Christie wrote the novella Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly with the intention of donating the proceeds to a fund set up to buy stained glass windows for her local church at Churston Ferrers, and she filled the story with references to local places, including her own home of Greenway. But having completed it, she decided instead to expand the story into a full-length novel, Dead Man’s Folly, which was published two years later, and donated a Miss Marple story (Greenshaw’s Folly) to the church fund instead. PLEASE DO NOT COMBINE!
Since the characters are chiefly the same, I have noted the character's name in the novella when it is different. If a character has only a surname in one version, and both a first name and surname in the other, I have used the full name in both works.
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When a mock murder game staged for charity threatens to turn into the real thing, the intrepid Hercule Poirot is called in to take part in this Dead Man's Folly, a classic from the queen of suspense, Agatha Christie.
Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well-known crime writer, agrees to organize their murder hunt.
Despite weeks of meticulous planning, at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot for his expert assistance. Instinctively, she senses that's something sinister is about to happen....
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