Because he knows that Stephen Norton will demand to switch cups, a character in this novel poisons both cups of hot chocolate. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this novel. After shooting Norton in a way that makes it appear like suicide, a character in this novel stops taking his medicine, triggering a fatal heart attack.
ANSWER: Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case
[10e] This author’s character Hercule Poirot (“AIR-kyool PWAH-ro”) dies in the novel Curtain.
ANSWER: Agatha Christie [or Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie; or Agatha Miller; or Lady Mallowan; or Mary Westmacott]
[10m] Poirot (“PWAH-ro”) suggests that James Sheppard take “an overdose of a sleeping draught” in this novel, whose final chapter is Sheppard’s suicide note. The killer in this novel is revealed to be its unreliable narrator.
ANSWER: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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