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Ordeal By Innocence

By 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—now a limited streaming series starring Bill Nighy and Anna Chancellor! Accused of bludgeoning his mother to death... Read more

Considered by critics as one of the best of Agatha Christie’s later novels, and a personal favorite for Christie herself—now a limited streaming series starring Bill Nighy and Anna Chancellor!

Accused of bludgeoning his mother to death with a poker, Jacko Argyle had maintained his innocence throughout his trial, claiming he was hitchhiking on the night of the murder and had been picked up by a middle-aged man in a dark car. The police were never able to locate this mystery man—until he shows up a year later. But Dr. Arthur Calgary arrives too late to substantiate Jacko’s alibi. For after serving just six months of his life sentence, Jacko dies behind bars following a bout of pneumonia.

Feeling a sense of duty to the Argyles, Calgary is surprised when his revelations reopen old wounds in the family, leaving him to wonder if one of them is the real murderer….  

 

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File size8 X 5.31 X 0.65 in
Print pages288
PublisherWilliam Morrow Paperbacks
Publication date July 3, 2018
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780062884732
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Agatha Christie
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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 Sep 1890 – 12 Jan 1976) was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those ...

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