from bookchickdi

After the Funeral begins with Mr. Entwhistle, a lawyer attending a funeral for one of his oldest clients and friends, Richard Abernethie. Mr. Abernethie ran a successful family business and with the death of only son occurring years earlier, the heirs to the family money include Richard's hypocho...

from bnielsen

England, ca 1952 Richard Abernethie er død 68 år gammel og da han ingen børn efterlader sig - hans søn Mortimer er død af polio i sin ungdoms blomst - bliver boet delt i seks dele. De fire dele går til broderen Timothy Abernethie, nevøen George Crossfield, niecen Susan Banks og niecen Rosamund Sh...

from passion4reading

When the family of the late Richard Abernethie gathers in the library of Enderby to hear the reading of the will, the deceased's sister, Cora Lansquenet, voices her suspicion that her brother was murdered. The following day, she herself is found dead in her cottage, brutally killed with a hatchet...

from smik

"Nobody had felt any deep grief for Richard Abernethie's death since none of them had had any close ties with him". But when his sister Cora makes the suggestion that Richard was actually murdered, and is then viciously murdered herself on the day after his funeral, the long-time family solicitor...

from xicanti

Hercule Poirot investigates two family-based murders. I got a big kick out of this. It did take a little while to get going, but as the story progressed I found myself eager to see how it would all turn out. The plot is semi-recycled from a couple of Dame Agatha's other books, but she's changed e...