Intrigued by all this, Mark proceeded to investigate, assisted by Ariadne Oliver and urged on by Mrs Dane Calthrop. He looked up Poppy for more details but she would not talk but looked very frightened. The mention of the same place twice within a short period of time made Mark curious. Ariadne told Mark that there was an inn there named "The Pale Horse". Later Rhoda Dawes wanted Mark to help invite Ariadne Oliver to sign books at a village fete at Much Deeping. She said it had something to do with "The Pale Horse". Next, while with his friend David Ardingly and his girlfriend Poppy Stirling, Mark heard Poppy make a remark that it was possible to order up a murder although it is quite expensive.
First he witnesses a fight between two girls in a cafe where Thomasina Tuckerton had her hair easily pulled out. Mark witnessed several key events in the development of the plot and part of it is carried as his first person narrative. There had been another man in the car with her.īy the time of the events in the book, Mark is an established historian specialising in Mogul architecture, with letters after his name, several publications and a listing in Who's Who. Some time later his wife died in a car crash in Italy. While at university Mark had married a girl named Doreen, even though they had not been of age. Mark went to Oxford at the same time as Jim Corrigan. He visited the Pale Horse in Much Deeping with Ariadne Oliver. In the novel The Pale Horse, Mark Easterbrook is a historian and cousin of Rhoda Dawes.
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