![]() I don’t want to give away too much about The Pale Horse and spoil your enjoyment of the drama but I do want to discuss just how brilliantly Christie used her scientific knowledge to construct the plot. It is doubtful that Christie, scientifically accurate though she was, could have taught him anything anyway, as Young had made his own extensive and detailed studies of all things toxic. The novel was published in 1961, the year before Young began his poisoning activities, but at his trial in 1971 he denied having read it. There are certainly some uncomfortable parallels between The Pale Horse and the crimes committed by Graham Young. But the same novel has also been accused of inspiring a murderer.Ĭhristie often used real life cases of murder as sources for her plots but on this occasion it was allegedly the other way round. ![]() ![]() It seems reading Christie could save your life. It is sufficiently detailed that on two occasions readers recognised symptoms in people who were being poisoned and were able to intervene. ![]() The novel, as would be expected of Christie, is packed with poisonous information and killer clues. ![]()
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