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
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 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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