![]() ‘Wholesale murder by black magic…highly ingenious, wholly enjoyable. ![]() Wherever the beginning lies, Mark and his sidekick, Ginger Corrigan, may soon have cause to wish they’d never found it… Critical Praise Or was there a deeper significance to the violent squabble which Mark Easterbrook had himself witnessed earlier? ![]() Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman’s head? Or was it when the priest’s assailant searched him so roughly he tore the clergyman’s cassock? Or could it have been the priest’s visit, just minutes before, to a woman on her death bed? To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. The Pale Horse is adapted from the 1961 novel by Agatha Christie, and is the final part in Sarah Phelpss 'quintet' of adaptations that covers '50 years of the tumultuous blood-soaked 20th. A priest’s death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country pub… ![]()
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