title: The Pale Horse (Agatha Christie)
author:  Agatha Christie 
description: "Wholesale murder by black magic...highly ingenious, wholly enjoyable."--"Evening Standard" (London)<br /><br />"Agatha Christie taught me many important lessons about the inner workings of the mystery novel before it ever occurred to me that I might one day be writing mysteries myself."--Sue Grafton, "New York Times" bestselling author
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  ## Agatha Christie
  
  
  ## The Pale Horse
  
  
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  To John and Helen Mildmay White  
  with many thanks for the opportunity  
  given me to see justice done
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## [Foreword](005_TOC.html#frontmatterpage_01)
  
  
  ## by Mark Easterbrook
  
  
  
  
  
  There are two methods, it seems to me, of approaching this strange business of
  the Pale Horse. In spite of the dictum of the White King, it is difficult to
  achieve simplicity. One cannot, that is to say, “Begin at the beginning, go on
  to the end, and then stop.” For where is the beginning?
  
  
  To a historian, that always is the difficulty. At what point in history does
  one particular portion of history begin.
  
  
  In this case, you can begin at the moment when Father Gorman set forth from
  his presbytery to visit a dying woman. Or you can start before that, on a
  certain evening in Chelsea.
  
  
  Perhaps, since I am writing the greater part of this narrative my