![]() ![]() ![]() However Mrs Burton-Cox stuns Ariadne by asking “Did her mother kill her father, or was it the father who killed the mother?”Ĭompletely shocked and confused by this strange question, Ariadne Oliver recalls that Celia Ravenscroft’s mother was Margaret (Mollie) Preston-Grey, an old school friend, who married a military man. She explains that her son is planning to marry Ariadne’s god-daughter, Celia Ranvescroft. It is typical of her later works in its nostalgia, and several references are made in the story to her earlier books.Įlephants Can Remember is the last novel that she wrote featuring Ariadne Oliver, and also Hercule Poirot – although ‘Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case’ was published after Agatha Christie’s death, it was actually written in the 1940s during World War II.Īt a literary lunch for female writers, Ariadne Oliver is approached by a complete stranger, the large and forceful Mrs Burton-Cox. Written towards the end of Agatha Christie’s life, at the age of 82, Elephants Can Remember is another retrospective novel investigating a murder from a long time past. ![]()
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