AC – ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE

Publisher:
HarperCollins
| Author:
Christie, Agatha
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Author:
Christie, Agatha
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback

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Evidence that clears the name of a boy sentenced for killing his adopted mother arrives too late to save his life: so who did kill her? According to the courts, Jacko Argyle bludgeoned his mother to death with a poker. The sentence was life imprisonment But when Dr Arthur Calgary turns up a year later with the proof that confirms Jacko’s innocence, he is too late: Jacko died behind bars from a bout of pneumonia. Worse still, the doctor’s revelations re-open old wounds in the family, increasing the likelihood that the real murderer will strike again€¦

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Evidence that clears the name of a boy sentenced for killing his adopted mother arrives too late to save his life: so who did kill her? According to the courts, Jacko Argyle bludgeoned his mother to death with a poker. The sentence was life imprisonment But when Dr Arthur Calgary turns up a year later with the proof that confirms Jacko’s innocence, he is too late: Jacko died behind bars from a bout of pneumonia. Worse still, the doctor’s revelations re-open old wounds in the family, increasing the likelihood that the real murderer will strike again€¦

About Author

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 189 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 1 foreign languages. She is the author of 8 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.

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