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She killed off Poirot in her 1975 novel, "Curtain," a death reported in a front-page obituary for Poirot in The New York Times on Aug. 6, 1975.
It became the setting for one of her early novels, the one in which she killed off an apprentice potter, a foreigner whose death fails to move the locals because she was "someone who had nothing to do with them and so didn't count".
It's more likely that she killed off Harrison Wright, aka Short, because the actor got into a bar fight, was involved in a domestic assault cause with his then wife and battled with substance abuse issues. .
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Her five men, whom she kills off in reverse chronology, are "united by male allegiance, women, and the beach, in that order".
Beryl Bainbridge answered it would be the mysterious and sententious Scurra - the most intriguing and knowing of the novel's characters - and, naturally, the character who, in a Prologue, she kills off in her novel's first two pages.
But the film-makers recoil from having her speak the truly obscene climactic lines after she kills off the red-leather bikini-clad villainess Mother Russia by stabbing her all over with shards of glass.
Amanda Cross does the symbolic deed with considerable relish and wit in her 13th academic mystery, HONEST DOUBT (Ballantine, $22), when she kills off a professor of Victorian literature whose Tennysonian-tinged political misogyny has stifled scholarship and poisoned the climate at his jerkwater college in New Jersey.
Adaleen is a strong contender for first wife, simply because she kills off the useless J.J. and his Bewigged Bride.
She's got cancer but is she being killed off for sharing her name with an Islamic terror group?
But in office she has killed off the last inter-Korean joint venture.
Mr. Hall retorted, "When I get up in the morning, I'll pick up the legal pad and discover that she's killed off the main character".
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