Ariadne Oliver

Mrs Ariadne Oliver is "one of the foremost writers of detective and other sensational stories." She accompanies Poirot on several of his most famous cases, offering solutions based on her astute female intuition.

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Did you know?

The Pale Horse stands out as a novel which has actually saved lives and solved crimes. In three separate instances in the 1970s, one in Latin America and two in England, people have spotted the symptoms of a type of poisoning, having recognised the description from The Pale Horse, just as Ariadne Oliver did.

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