Mrs. McGinty's Dead - Agatha Christie

n nIn Mrs. McGinty's Dead, one of Agatha Christie's most ingenious mysteries, the intrepid Hercule Poirot must look into the case of a brutally murdered landlady.n nMrs. McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head.

Suspicion falls immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes reveal traces of the victim's blood and hair.

• Yet something is amiss: Bentley just doesn't seem like a murderer.n nCould the answer lie in an article clipped from a newspaper two days before the death?

With a desperate killer still free, Hercule Poirot will have to stay alive long enough to find out. . .

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