Author | Agatha Christie |
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Cover artist | Not known |
Language | English |
Genre | Crime |
Publisher | Collins Crime Club |
Publication date | 6 November 1961 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 256 (first edition, hardcover) |
Preceded by | Double Sin and Other Stories |
Followed by | The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side |
The Pale Horse is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1961,[1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year.[2][3] The UK edition retailed at fifteen shillings (15/- = 75p)[1] and the US edition at $3.75.[3] The novel features her novelist detective Ariadne Oliver as a minor character, and reflects in tone the supernatural novels of Dennis Wheatley who was then at the height of his popularity. The Pale Horse is mentioned in Revelation 6:8, where it is ridden by Death.