“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him …” It was published in 1961 by Collins Sons in London, and in 1962 by Dodd, Mead & Co. The title of this book comes from the Revelation of St John the Divine, chapter 6, verse 8. The black magic theme is handled in a masterly and sinister fashion, and to give away what lay behind it would be unforgivable. A doctor conferring with Scotland Yard had read The Pale Horse and realised that the mysterious “Bovingdon bug” was actually thallium poisoning. In another instance, in 1971, a serial killer, Graham Frederick Young, who had poisoned several people, three fatally, was caught thanks to this book. In 1975, Christie received a letter from a woman in Latin America who had thus saved a woman from slow poisoning by her husband and in 1977, a nurse who had been reading The Pale Horse correctly suggested that a baby in her care was suffering from thallium poisoning. This novel is notable among Christie’s books as it is credited with having saved at least two lives after readers recognised the symptoms of thallium poisoning from the description in the book.
The other reintroduced Christie’s earlier thoughts about “Voodoo etc., White Cocks, Arsenic? Childish stuff – work on the mind and what can the law do to you? Love Potions and Death Potions, – the aphrodisiac and the cup of poison. One, a book “would start somehow with a list of names … “.
More about this story: The Pale Horse combined two ideas that Agatha Christie had been considering. But where exactly was the beginning? Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman’s head? Or was it when the priest’s assailant searched him so roughly he tore the clergyman’s cassock? Or could it have been the priest’s visit, just minutes before, to a woman on her death bed? Or was there a deeper significance to the violent squabble which Mark Easterbrook had himself witnessed earlier? Wherever the beginning lies, Mark and his sidekick, Ginger Corrigan, may soon have cause to wish they’d never found it. Synopsis: To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. The novel features her novelist detective Ariadne Oliver as a minor character, and reflects in tone the supernatural novels of Dennis Wheatley who was then at the height of his popularity.įirst sentence: The Espresso machine behind my shoulder hissed like an angry snake. First published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1961, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión en castellano desplazarse hacia abajo
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