Download The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5) Depicted By Agatha Christie Readable In Mobi

in light of new tv adaptation coming out in Febwith Rufus Sewell,
With the material here, I can well see this being rather dark and scary, . . Ill post more once I see it :O


"Evil is nothing superhuman",

As much as I love Poirot and Marple, there is something even more appealing to a Christie book with a totally unknown 'investigator'.


Mark Easterbrook senses all is not what it seems in a series of events that lead him to look into The Pale Horse.
The narrative follows him as well as DetectiveInspector Lejeune in their queries about certain deaths that appear normal, But are they

This is quite a dark novel but an enjoyable one, if just by the short presence of Ariadne Oliver.
Christie does her thing beautifully, leading us down one path while in fact going in a totally different way, She also seems to have commented on 'appearance', One always expect criminals, and 'witches', to appear grander than life, but as mentioned in the book, it is the ones who look totally ordinary that are the scariest.
This book started super strong, got a little wonky midway through, but totally delighted me with the ending! I thought I was reading one type of Christie tricks type A but it was actually a totally different type of mystery type b, and it has been so long since Ive been totally faked out by her.
The type b version of mystery is so much more my kind of Christie, anyways, so that made me happy.
Overall, this gave me all the happy, cozy Christie vibes, and Im now super interested to see the new adaptation that is coming out The nonPoirot or Jane Marple books are usually hit or miss for me.
However, Christie does a great job with this one, The book is slow moving at first, We follow a man named Mark Easterbrook who narrates the majority of the book, Initially we don't exactly know what's going on, we just know that there are some deaths that are somehow linked to a place called "The Pale Horse.
" It took me til about thepercent mark to get really into the book, I liked Easterbrook and was delighted with Mrs, Oliver for popping up too, She gets strong armed to sign some books at a village fete by Easterbrook and makes mention of not liking fetes after what happened at the last one she was at Dead Man's Folly.


"The Pale Horse" follows Mark Easterbrook who appears to be a historical writer or novelist, still unclear on that who seems to be drifting through his life, He has a steady relationship with a woman named Hermia who he is slightly fond of, but who he finds dull.
When he witnesses two young woman tousling over a young man at a coffee bar he finds out one of the woman's names Thomasina Tuckerton known as Tommy Tucker and learns later that she died after reading her obituary.
The book then shifts to Father Gorman who is called to give last rites to a woman who is dying.
Whatever he learns disturbs him so much he goes off and writes down names, Too bad for Father Gorman that someone ends up murdering the man, not realizing that he tucked the list of names into his shoe.
When the police are called up, they are flummoxed about the list of names, They realize some of the names are of people who have died, but have died of natural causes, Then we switch back to Mark and him getting pulled into the investigation,

There are a lot of characters in this one, but Christie does a great job with all of them I thought.
I liked Mark. We get some reveals about his backstory that surprised me, I did like that when he ends up realizing where The Pale Horse is near one of his relatives he acts as if he isn't interested in going there after what many of the inhabitants say about the three women who work there.
When he realizes that Hermia is not taking his concerns seriously, he goes to the local vicar's wife who believes him and also ends up getting assisted by Mrs.
Oliver who gives him some suggestions about forming a partnership with Ginger Corrigan a young lady he met when he initially came to visit his relatives.


I really enjoyed Ginger a lot, Her and Mark definitely realize something is up with The Pale Horse and refuse to just let the police do their investigation.


I also liked how Christie did foreshadowing in this one, We have Mark, Hermia, and Mark's friend and his date talking about MacBeth and the three witches and how unrealistic they are when you get into their speech and how actors portray them.
I liked how Mark's friend said what would be more scary would just be three ordinary women in a village who many have come to fear.
When Mark meets Thyrza Grey, Sybil Stamfordis, and Bella Webb, I got why he felt uneasy around them, Here are the three modern witches that his friend warned him about and Mark becomes afraid they do have real power to cause someone to get sick and die.


The writing was very good and I have to admit that I didn't see the ending coming at all.
Per usual, smartly done by Christie, Extremely dark and chilling read with a stuffed animal or a huggable friend nearby! Very thrilling and powerful read, and definitely my

favourite nonPoirot or Marple mystery, hands down.
Definitely a tense and creepy affair the atmosphere is very much like what I would imagine the dark streets of Whitechapel would be during the lateth Century.
Mark Easterbrook is a loveable hero, intelligent and brave, and you can't help but be nervous and root for him at the same time as he plunges headlong into danger in order to solve the mystery.
The romance was reasonably welldeveloped and rather cute, too totally cheered when he found the right girl and came to his senses about the boring, snobby one.
The random appearances of Ariadne Oliver made a nice tiein with her other cases, and her slightly batty, cheery personality made a great contrast with the rest of the case.
This is probably the first time I liked her rather than finding her annoying! Classic Agatha Christie with a distinctly modern flavour!

Father Gorman attends to one of his parishioners who, with her dying breath, asks for forgiveness and gives him a list of names with a wish that the evil be "Stopped.
. . it must be stopped You will see" When Father Gorman was found murdered later that night, the police suspect that the murderer failed to find the crumpled list of names stuffed in Gorman's shoe and that the list was likely the reason he had been murdered.
This list of names and a series of serendipitous events, happenstance conversations and fortuitous meetings put Mark Easterbrook, Dame Agatha Christie's everpresent amateur sleuth, onto the trail of a gang of ruthless murders for hire.
But Easterbrook is terrified to discover that the murders seem to be committed by a coven of three odd witches dispatching their victims for a fee with a malevolent brew of witchcraft, psychic arts, black magic and the mere power of suggestion.


The Pale Horse retains many of the characteristics of Agatha Christie's earliest cozy mysteries country fêtes and bazaars, afternoon tea, parish vicars and their longsuffering wives and the obligatory parlour room confrontation with the suspects.
Agatha Christie even allows herself a cameo appearance in the novel in the person of twittering author Ariadne Oliver, But The Pale Horse also has a much more modern flavour as an aging Dame Christie brings her craft into London of the early sixties Soho, Chelsea coffee bars, discussions of avant garde productions of Shakespearean plays in ways the bard would never have imagined, a more graphic approach to violence and brutality and a somewhat grudging if critical acceptance of the popular culture of London's younger people.


But the ending, whether you think of it as vintage mystery or new age police procedural, is classic Agatha Christie a beautiful blindside twist that no reader will see coming until it's right on top of you!

Highly recommended and thoroughly entertaining!

Paul Weiss .
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The Pale Horse is a spooky little mystery that dabbles with the idea of a cabal of criminals who kill for money using supernatural means.

Can it be done



Three kooky sisters in a village claim to have powers beyond what mortal men can comprehend.

Nobody takes them seriously, of course,
But when a nice old priest is killed after a dying woman makes her last confession to him and asks him to make things right, it sets off a chain of events that has a whole lot of people asking if perhaps there isn't more to the urban legend of The Pale Horse than meets the eye.




I really liked Mark and the cast of characters that surrounded him, The amateur detectives are always fun to watch, and he and Ginger made a great team, This is also one of the examples of when Christie gets romance right, as she is also fairly well known for popping up at the last moment with some kind of horrible romantic jump scare.




If you read a lot of her books this won't surprise you, but Christie liked to throw out little nods to her other books.
This time around I thought they were particularly well done because the stories mentioned just fit the spooky atmosphere of this so well.

Mark, David's friend, tells a story that mentions the psychotic little old lady from sitelinkBy the Pricking of My Thumbs.
And it was so well done that it gave me the shivers,
There was also mention of someone possibly being hypnotized into eating a candle just like the girl who was possessed in sitelinkThe Fourth Man: A Short Story.




That ending!
There's no way you're going to guess whodunnit, Unless maybe you have some sort of supernatural powers
I mean, the just villain popped up so far out in left field that I was kind of standing there with my jaw hanging open.
What
I don't know if it was a good reveal or a stupid one, But either way, there weren't any clues that I noticed that could have pointed in that direction,
However, this was a lot of fun to read,
Recommended!.