![]() A doctor conferring with Scotland Yard had read The Pale Horse and realised that the mysterious "Bovingdon bug" was actually thallium poisoning. We have new and used copies available on DVD - starting at 12.74. In another instance, in 1971, a serial killer, Graham Frederick Young, who had poisoned several people, three fatally, was caught thanks to this book. Buy Agatha Christies Marple: The Pale Horse directed by Andy Hay online at Alibris UK. ![]() ![]() 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. Summary: A Catholic priest is brutally murdered after taking confession from a dying parishioner. I should say, however, that the author herself had toyed with the idea of bringing Miss Marple into the plot, thereby re-uniting her with Mrs Dane Calthorp.2 I. 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. The Pale Horse combined two ideas that Agatha Christie had been considering. ![]()
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