Agatha Christie's After the Funeral

Answer the questions relating to Agatha Christie's 1953 book "After the Funeral"(one of my personal favourites). You will have to have substantial knowledge of the book, as the answers will be very difficult to guess. Spoiler alert (obviously).

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Hint	Answer
Name of the detective.	Hercule Poirot
Identity of the killer.	Miss Gilchrist
Murder victim killed by axe.	Mrs Cora Lansquenet
Person thought to have been killed by poison.	Richard Abernethie
Name of the house that serves as the main setting.	Enderby Hall
Name of the faithful yet poor-sighted Butler who works at the above mentioned residence.	Lanscombe
How the murderer gave themselves away.	Tilted head the wrong way when impersonating victim /Mentioned a display of wax flowers they couldn't have seen unless lying.
Name of artist who painted the portrait that the murder wanted to acquire from their victim's will.	Johannes Vermeer
Murderer's motive for wanting the painting.	Money to reopen tea shop.
Name of person who hires Poirot to investigate a death	Mr Entwhistle
Food the murderer poisoned to make it look like they were being targeted to throw suspicion off of themselves.	Wedding Cake
The poison they used.	Arsenic
Person struck on the head by murderer in order to stop them exposing the killer.	Helen Abernethie
Name of victim's brother who is an invalid.	Timothy Abernethie
Victim's sister in law who is the overworked wife of the character mentioned above.	Maude Abernethie
Name of victims niece who received her estate.	Susan Banks
The town where the victim lived.	Lytchett St Mary

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Apr 29, 2020

A really good quiz. You need to make more of these with Christie's other books! I would love one with "Five Little Pigs", "Three Act Tragedy" and "Death On The Nile".

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Oct 17, 2020

And Lord Edgware dies

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Jan 2, 2021

"And Then There Were None" and "Crooked House" would also be fantastic!