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The Killings at Kingfisher Hill

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by Sophie Hannah


  Poirot leaned over and pulled the newspaper out of my hands. He folded it and put it down on a chair. ‘Now, tell me more about your board game,’ he said. ‘What is it to be called? Does it already have a name?’

  ‘No. I have a few ideas, but I haven’t settled on anything yet.’

  ‘Then you know what to do, mon ami. It is the same thing that I always tell you: it is how your little grey cells function most effectively.’

  ‘What?’ I asked him.

  ‘You must make a list!’

  THE END

  THE AGATHA CHRISTIE COLLECTION

  Mysteries

  The Man in the Brown Suit

  The Secret of Chimneys

  The Seven Dials Mystery

  The Mysterious Mr Quin

  The Sittaford Mystery

  The Hound of Death

  The Listerdale Mystery

  Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

  Parker Pyne Investigates

  Murder Is Easy

  And Then There Were None

  Towards Zero

  Death Comes as the End

  Sparkling Cyanide

  Crooked House

  They Came to Baghdad

  Destination Unknown

  Spider’s Web*

  The Unexpected Guest*

  Ordeal by Innocence

  The Pale Horse

  Endless Night

  Passenger To Frankfurt

  Problem at Pollensa Bay

  While the Light Lasts

  Poirot

  The Mysterious Affair at Styles

  The Murder on the Links

  Poirot Investigates

  The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

  The Big Four

  The Mystery of the Blue Train

  Black Coffee*

  Peril at End House

  Lord Edgware Dies

  Murder on the Orient Express

  Three Act Tragedy

  Death in the Clouds

  The ABC Murders

  Murder in Mesopotamia

  Cards on the Table

  Murder in the Mews

  Dumb Witness

  Death on the Nile

  Appointment With Death

  Hercule Poirot’s Christmas

  Sad Cypress

  One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

  Evil Under the Sun

  Five Little Pigs

  The Hollow

  The Labours of Hercules

  Taken at the Flood

  Mrs McGinty’s Dead

  After the Funeral

  Hickory Dickory Dock

  Dead Man’s Folly

  Cat Among the Pigeons

  The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

  The Clocks

  Third Girl

  Hallowe’en Party

  Elephants Can Remember

  Poirot’s Early Cases

  Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case

  Marple

  The Murder at the Vicarage

  The Thirteen Problems

  The Body in the Library

  The Moving Finger

  A Murder Is Announced

  They Do It With Mirrors

  A Pocket Full of Rye

  4.50 from Paddington

  The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side

  A Caribbean Mystery

  At Bertram’s Hotel

  Nemesis

  Sleeping Murder

  Miss Marple’s Final Cases

  Tommy & Tuppence

  The Secret Adversary

  Partners in Crime

  N or M?

  By the Pricking of My Thumbs

  Postern of Fate

  Published as Mary Westmacott

  Giant’s Bread

  Unfinished Portrait

  Absent in the Spring

  The Rose and the Yew Tree

  A Daughter’s a Daughter

  The Burden

  Memoirs

  An Autobiography

  Come, Tell Me How You Live

  The Grand Tour

  Plays and Stories

  Akhnaton

  Little Grey Cells

  Murder, She said

  The Floating Admiral†

  Star Over Bethlehem

  Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly

  * novelized by Charles Osborne

  † contributor

  Keep Reading …

  ALSO BY SOPHIE HANNAH

  ‘It is hate that makes people kill … not love.’

  Hercule Poirot’s quiet supper in a London coffee house is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified, but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done.

  Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at the fashionable Bloxham Hotel have been murdered, and a cufflink has been placed in each one’s mouth. Could there be a connection with the frightened woman? While Poirot struggles to connect the bizarre pieces of the puzzle, the murderer prepares a hotel bedroom for a fourth victim …

  ‘Grips from the very start. Hannah gets it right in every particular.’

  THE TIMES

  ‘Immensely satisfying—an ingenious ending’

  INDEPENDENT

  ‘A highly readable locked-room mystery with a delectable twist.’

  MAIL ON SUNDAY

  ‘Superbly orchestrated … as exhilaratingly complicated as anything by Christie.’

  SUNDAY TIMES

  ALSO BY SOPHIE HANNAH

  ‘What I intend to say to you will come as a shock …’

  Lady Athelinda Playford has planned a house party at her mansion, but it is no ordinary gathering. She announces that she has decided to change her will, cutting off her children and leaving her fortune to someone who has only weeks to live …

  Among Lady Playford’s guests are Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard, who have no idea why they have been invited … until Poirot starts to wonder if Lady Playford expects a murderer to strike. When the crime is committed, and the victim is not who Poirot thought it would be, will he be able to solve the mystery?

  ‘Sparkling second outing for Hannah’s reimagined Poirot’

  SUNDAY TIMES

  ‘Offers a clever twist which the Queen of Crime would have applauded’

  DAILY EXPRESS

  ‘Another satisfying addition to the Agatha Christie canon’

  IRISH TIMES

  ‘A novel fizzing with ideas and spikey dialogue’

  SUNDAY EXPRESS

  ALSO BY SOPHIE HANNAH

  ‘Murder! Me? How dare you!’

  Hercule Poirot’s tranquil afternoon is ruined when an angry woman accosts him outside his front door. She threatens to report the famous detective to Scotland Yard for falsely accusing her of murder. Seeking sanctuary inside, Poirot is startled to find that he has a visitor—another stranger claiming to have received a letter from Poirot accusing him of killing the same man.

  How many more innocent people have been sent letters? If Poirot didn’t send them, who did? And who is Barnabas Pandy, the alleged victim—is he dead or alive? Poirot has answers to find, and quickly, or more lives may be put in danger …

  ‘What Sophie and Agatha have in common is a rare talent for fiendish unpredictability. They make you see how the impossible might be possible after all.’

  SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

  ‘A literary marriage made in heaven!’

  THE TIMES

  ‘Sophie does justice to the Belgian brainiac, both in terms of bringing his character to life and giving him a mystery to solve that is worthy of his talents. It’s her best Poirot novel so far.’

  SUNDAY EXPRESS

  About the Authors

  SOPHIE HANNAH is an internationally bestselling writer of crime fiction, published in more than 49 languages. Her novel The Carrier won Crime Thriller of the Year at the 2013 Specsavers National Book Awards. She lives with her husband, children and dog i
n Cambridge, where she is a Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, and as a poet has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. The Killings at Kingfisher Hill is Sophie’s fourth Hercule Poirot novel.

  AGATHA CHRISTIE is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, more than 20 plays, and six novels written under the name Mary Westmacott.

  Also by Sophie Hannah

  Little Face

  Hurting Distance

  The Point of Rescue

  The Other Half Lives

  A Room Swept White

  Lasting Damage

  Kind of Cruel

  The Carrier

  The Orphan Choir

  The Telling Error

  Pictures Or It Didn’t Happen

  A Game for All the Family

  The Narrow Bed

  Did You See Melody?

  Haven’t They Grown

  Hercule Poirot mysteries

  The Monogram Murders

  Closed Casket

  The Mystery of Three Quarters

  Non-Fiction

  How To Hold A Grudge

  Happiness: A Mystery—and 66 Attempts to Solve It

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