Ordeal by Innocence - Christie, Agatha
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Accused of bludgeoning his mother to death with a poker, Jacko Argyle had maintained his innocence throughout his trial, claiming he was hitchhiking on the night of the murder and had been picked up by a middle-aged man in a dark car. The police were never able to locate this mystery man?until he shows up a year later. But Dr. Arthur Calgary arrives too late to substantiate Jacko's alibi. For after serving just six months of his life sentence, Jacko dies behind bars following a bout of pneumonia. Feeling a sense of duty to the Argyles, Calgary is surprised when his revelations reopen old…mehr

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Accused of bludgeoning his mother to death with a poker, Jacko Argyle had maintained his innocence throughout his trial, claiming he was hitchhiking on the night of the murder and had been picked up by a middle-aged man in a dark car. The police were never able to locate this mystery man?until he shows up a year later. But Dr. Arthur Calgary arrives too late to substantiate Jacko's alibi. For after serving just six months of his life sentence, Jacko dies behind bars following a bout of pneumonia. Feeling a sense of duty to the Argyles, Calgary is surprised when his revelations reopen old wounds in the family, leaving him to wonder if one of them is the real murderer. . . .
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Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.
Agatha Christie
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'Family tensions and suspicions are adroitly handled, and the solution is characteristically surprising'
New York Times

'Has the particular distinction of presenting a new temporary detective in place of Poirot or Miss Marple.'
New York Herald Tribune Book Review