Mysteries through the Decades Book Club. Thursday March 23 at 2:00 p.m.
1940s: The Hollow by Agatha Christie Lady Angkatell, intrigued by the criminal mind, has invited Hercule Poirot to her estate for a weekend house party. The Belgian detective's arrival at the Hollow is met with an elaborate tableau staged for his amusement: a doctor lies in a puddle of red paint, his timid wife stands over his body with a gun while the other guests look suitably shocked. But this is no charade. The paint is blood and the corpse real!
It was first published in 1946 in London and in the United States, it was published under the title Murder after Hours.
