Sad Cypress

by Agatha Christie

Opening with a dramatic courtroom scene, Sad Cypress is an impressive journey into tortured romance and cunning greed.

The novel triumphs on all levels with a brilliant plot, tight narrative, and believeable dialogue and personalities.

The story commences with a poison-pen letter which sets off a sequence of events that lead to the recipient finding herself in the dock, on trial for murder – the trial which forms the opening to the novel.

Hercule Poirot investigates, but with the client who engages him wanting the defendant found not guilty at any cost and whatever the reality of the matter, is this a case that Poirot is wise to take on?