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Agatha Christie 
The Pale Horse 
To John and Helen Mildmay White with many thanks for the opportunity given me to see justice done 
Foreword 
by Mark Easterbrook 
There are two methods, it seems to me, of approaching this strange business of the Pale Horse. In spite of the dictum of the White King, it is difficult to achieve simplicity. One cannot, that is to say, “Begin at the beginning, go on to the end, and then stop.” For where is the beginning?
To a historian, that always is the difficulty. At what point in history does one particular portion of history begin.
In this case, you can begin at the moment when Father Gorman set forth from his presbytery to visit a dying woman. Or you can start before that, on a certain evening in Chelsea.
Perhaps, since I am writing the greater part of this narrative myself, it is there that I should begin.
Contents 
Cover
 
Title Page
 
Dedication
 
Foreword
 
Chapter One
 
Chapter Two
 
Chapter Three
 
Chapter Four
 
Chapter Five
 
Chapter Six
 
Chapter Seven
 
Chapter Eight
 
Chapter Nine
 
Chapter Ten
 
Chapter Eleven
 
Chapter Twelve
 
Chapter Thirteen
 
Chapter Fourteen
 
Chapter Fifteen
 
Chapter Sixteen
 
Chapter Seventeen
 
Chapter Eighteen
 
Chapter Nineteen
 
Chapter Twenty
 
Chapter Twenty-one
 
Chapter Twenty-two
 
Chapter Twenty-three
 
Chapter Twenty-four
 
Chapter Twenty-five
 
About the Author
 
Other Books by Agatha Christie
 
Copyright
 
About the Publisher
 
One 
Mark Easterbrook’s Narrative 
I 
The Espresso machine behind my shoulder hissed like an angry snake. The noise it made had a sinister, not to say devilish, suggestion about it. Perhaps, I reflected, most of our contemporary noises carry that implication. The intimidating angry scream of jet planes as they flash across the sky; the slow menacing rumble of a tube train approaching through its tunnel; the heavy road transport that shakes the very foundations of your house… Even the minor domestic noises of today, beneficial in action though they may be, yet carry a kind of alert. The dishwashers, the refrigerators, the pressure cookers, the whining vacuum cleaners—“Be careful,” they all seem to say. “I am a genie harnessed to your service, but if your control of me fails….”
A dangerous world—that was it, a dangerous world.
I stirred the foaming cup placed in front of me. It smelt pleasant.
“What else will you have? Nice banana and bacon sandwich?”
It seemed an odd juxtaposition to me. Bananas I connected with my childhood—or occasionally flambé w ............

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