Dumb Witness: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

Agatha Christie

Jan 2005 · Hercule Poirot Mysteries Book 16 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

In Agatha Christie’s Dumb Witness, Hercule Poirot investigates the very suspicious death of an elderly spinster who, fearing the very worst, had written to the great detective prior to her demise.

Everyone blamed Emily Arundell’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her.…

On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously, he didn’t receive the letter until June 28th…by which time Emily was already dead.…

Ratings and reviews

This book wasn't as riveting as many of her other works. It is worth the read but I didnt enjoy it as much.

Good

About the author

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.