The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() He’s friends with fellow author Ariadne Oliver, who pops in to accidentally drop him some key information, but she’s not in the story much. Although his job as a history book writer doesn’t precisely make him an Everyman, he fits the bill closely enough. In “The Pale Horse,” she sets Marple and Poirot aside and gives us one-off narrator and amateur sleuth Mark Easterbrook. ![]() ![]() Christie again reminds us to “trust no one,” but I guess the problem is that “I want to believe.” I was so focused on being skeptical about the three “witches” in The Pale Horse (a former pub turned into a home with a séance room) that I ended up being too credulous of another character’s story. The witching hourĪs usual, she tricked me. In the end, this is owed to her veteran strength as a writer more so than detailed scientific theorizing about the power of a “death wish.” But I still thoroughly enjoyed reading it and guessing what the answer would be. Drawing on the notion that the supernatural is things science hasn’t explained yet, Agatha Christie holds a spooky vibe for most of the page count of “The Pale Horse” (1961). ![]()
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