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Hori is the character of Agatha Christie's novel Death Comes As The End. He's Imhotep's family's scribe.
History[]
Hori, together with the other characters in the story, meets Renisenb, who came to her father's house after the death of her husband. He warns her that the family has changed for the worse, but she does not understand him. Later, Imhotep brings a new concubine named Nofret into the house. Nofret begins to pit the family members against each other, and Satipy (Yahmose's wife) offers to kill her, and Hori and Yahmose try to dissuade her. Sobek, one of Yahmose's brothers, leaves in anger and Hori tries to stop him. Later, Renisenb discovers Nofret's corpse and Satipy acting strangely. Hori and Yahmose appear and claim that they were checking the water channels. Renisenb suspects Sobek of killing Nofret, since he previously killed a snake and threatened to do the same with Nofret herself. Hori claims to know who the killer is, but due to lack of evidence, he is afraid to voice his thoughts out loud. Later, Satipi withdraws into himself and begins to be afraid of everyone. She even stops offending her husband Yahmose (and previously did this regularly). The whole family takes notice of this change. After Satipy herself falls off a cliff and dies, everyone assumes that she killed Nofret, but Hori is shown not to fully believe it. After this, someone poisons Yahmose and Sobek. Sobek dies. Yahmose is in serious condition. A slave boy serving Yahmose claims that a certain woman performed strange manipulations with a drink, whichYahmose and Sobek then drank. The next day, that slave boy himself is found dead (he was poisoned with sleeping pills). Hori, along with Renisenb and her grandmother Eza, try to figure out who it could be, but come to the conclusion that it could be anyone. A little later, Ipy, another brother of Yahmose, is found drowned. Later, Eza decides to marry Renisenb to Kameni, after which she falls ill. Then she dies. Hori realizes that she was poisoned. He later spots Yahmose attempting to kill Renisenb and kills him with an arrow from his bow. He later explains Yahmose's motives. It turns out that it was Yahmose, and not his wife Satipi, who threw Nofret from the cliff, after which he could not stop. Instead, Yahmose killed anyone who got in his way simply because he enjoyed killing. Hori himself almost immediately realized who the killer was. He knew that Yahmose had been checking the water channels with him for about an hour, and Nofret (judging by the state of her body) had been killed earlier. He also drew attention to Satipy’s condition after the murder. He realized that she was afraid, and afraid of Yahmose. Then she died, and everyone decided that she was afraid of the ghost of Nofret (but in fact, she saw Yahmose coming to kill her, and fell and died). According to Hori, Eza realized this when Henet told her that everyone was looking at her as if she were not there, as if there was something behind her that was not there, and then started talking about Satipi. After this, Eza decided to marry Renisenb to Kameni in order to protect her granddaughter. She believed that Kameni would be in danger, but just in case, she asked Hori to keep an eye on Renisenb and intervene if necessary (which he did).
Personality[]
Hori is one of Imhotep's devoted servants. He does everything possible for the good of the family. Faced with murders, he immediately understands who the killer is, but, due to the lack of evidence, he does not dare to voice his thoughts out loud, as this threatens those to whom he tells it. He also continues to feel sorry for Yahmose even after the latter completely loses control over himself and justification for his actions. He understands that although Yahmose has become a monster in human skin and there is no longer any justification for his actions, it is essentially the attitude of his family that made him that way. Therefore, he kills him as painlessly as possible.
Trivia[]
- He's somewhat similar to Luke Fitzwilliam from Murder is Easy. Both are investigating murders that occur in a certain community, where each had a motive to commit these murders. Subsequently, both save their beloved girl from the villain. Only Hori kills Yahmose, and Luke does NOT kill Honoria. Interestingly, both are accompanied by an old lady (but Eza isn't the main antagonist of her respective work unlike Honoria, she's herself a victim).
