![]() ![]() ![]() Mrs Dane Calthrop from The Moving Finger also reappears in approximately the same role as she played in that book: the rational but devoted Christian who wants the evil stopped. In addition to Ariadne Oliver, Major Despard and his wife Rhoda (who met and fell in love in Cards on the Table) also participate in the plot. ![]() This novel is notable as several of her earlier characters reappear in this book. The Pale Horse is mentioned in Revelation 6:8, where it is ridden by Death. 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 UK edition retailed at fifteen shillings (15/- = 75p) and the US edition at $3.75. 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, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. ![]()
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