“ | Do you hear, Ashanet? I'm the mistress here now and I'm telling you that your linen will bandage yet another body. And whose body is that, do you think? Hee hee! You've not been able to do much about things, have you? You and your mother's brother, the Nomarch! Justice? What justice can you do in this world? Answer me that! | „ |
~ Henet taunting the deceased Nofret, which ironically foreshadowed Henet's own demise and became her final words. |
Henet is a supporting antagonist of Agatha Christie's 1944 historical mystery novel, Death Comes At the End. She was a female retainer in King Imhotep's house. She despised Renisenb and her mother and was hated by most of the family as well. After the death of Nofret, Henet briefly rose to power and discovered who the murderer was. Nevertheless, she was smothered to death in a manner of mummification before she could tell someone.
History[]
Henet was the long-serving housekeeper of Imhotep's family, and has been feigning loyalty and devotion for decades in order to become the family's mistress. In addition, she openly admitted to Renisenb that she has hated most of her masters, including Renisenb's long-dead mother.
After the murder of Nofret, Henet taunted her in her liner storeroom, exclaiming she had become the mistress in the house and will use her linen to bandage another person's corpse. However, moments later, Henet is found smothered by the linens used to wrap the ever increasing number of victims, unable to warn someone about the killer's true identity. In another words, Henet was mummified alive by the murdererer.
Ironically, Henet herself became the very same person whom she claimed to be the next one would be wrapped by Nofret's linen.
Trivia[]
- Amongst all of the victims in Agatha Christie's novel, Henet has one of the most painful deaths due to being mummified alive.
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