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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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Agatha Christie's signature Villains
(Non-Poirot & Non-Marple)

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford
Conspiracy (Mr. Brown, Mr. Brown's decoy & Mr. Whittington) | Elise | Miss Bligh | Mrs. Lancaster | N & M | Russian spies (Captain Harker, Charles Bauer, Duke of Blairgowrie, Dymchurch & Number 16) | Sir Arthur Merivale | Sir Phillip Stark

And Then There Were None
Anthony James Marston | Mrs. Ethel Rogers | General John Gordon Macarthur | Mr. Thomas Rogers | Emily Caroline Brent | Justice Lawrence John Wargrave | Dr. Edward George Armstrong | William Henry Blore | Philip Lombard | Vera Elizabeth Claythorne | Isaac Morris | Edward Seton

Other Mystery Stories
The Wife of the Kenite (1923): Conrad Schaefer
The Red Signal (1924): Jack Trent
The Mystery of the Blue Jar (1924): Ambrose Lavington | Felise Marchaud
The Man in the Brown Suit (1924): Sir Eustace Pedler
The Witness for the Prosecution (1925): Leonard Vole | Romaine Heilger
The Fourth Man (1925): Annette Ravel
S.O.S. (1926): Mr. Dinsmead
Wireless (1926): Charles Ridgeway
The Last Séance (1927): Madame Exe
The Sittaford Mystery (1931): Major Burnaby
The Hound of Death (1933): Dr. Rose
The Strange Case of Arthur Carmichael (1933): Lady Carmichael
Philomel Cottage (1934): Charles Lemaitre
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1934): Roger Bassington-ffrench | Moira Nicholson
Murder is Easy (1939): Honoria Waynflete
Death Comes as the End (1944): Yahmose | Nofret | Satipy | Sobek | Ipy | Henet
Towards Zero (1944): Nevile Strange
Sparkling Cyanide (1945): Ruth Lessing
Crooked House (1949): Josephine Leonides
The Mousetrap (1952): TOP SECRET | Maureen Lyon | Mrs. Boyle
Destination Unknown (1954): Thomas Betterton
Ordeal by Innocence (1958): Jacko Argyle | Kirsten Lindholm | Rachel Argyle
The Pale Horse (1961): Zachariah Osborne
Endless Night (1967): Michael Rogers | Greta Andersen

Adaptational, Homage & Non-Canonical
Ordeal by Innocence (2018): Bellamy Gould | Leo Argyll
Other Adaptations: Leonard Waynflete

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