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Sad Cypress
Beautiful, young Elinor Carlisle stands serenely in the dock accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence is damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, one man still presumes Elinor is innocent until proven guilty; Hercule Poirot is all that stands between Elinor and the gallows...Year: 1940
Detective: Hercule Poirot
Location: England
Detective: Hercule Poirot
Location: England
Cast of characters
Hercule Poirot. Also: Mr. Abbot, Inspector Brill, Sir Edwin Bulmer, Elinor Carlisle, Mary Draper, Ephraim and Mary Gerrard, Jessie Hopkins, Horlick, James Arthur Littledale, Dr. Peter Lord, Chief Inspector Marsden, Nurse O'Brien, Alfred James Wargrave, Laura and Roderick WelmanPublishing history
Publishing: First published in 1940 by William Collins Sons & Co. in London, and by Dodd, Mead & Co. in New York. Dramatised for ITV in 2003, starring David Suchet in the title role.Notes and reviews
The title is taken from the song in Shakespeare's Twelth Night and is printed at the beginning of the novel.Murder methods:
Two Poisonings.xxx