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The Last Séance
- Tales of the Supernatural
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Anthologies & Short Stories
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A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio. A retired Police Inspector recognizes a woman in his village whom he once suspected of murdering her husband. He is determined that her new husband won’t suffer the same fate....
Publisher's Summary
From the Queen of Crime, the first time all of her spookiest and most macabre stories have been collected in one volume.
‘From behind the curtains there still sounded the terrible high long-drawn scream - such a scream as Raoul had never heard. It died away with a horrible kind of gurgle. Then there came the thud of a body falling....'
For lovers of the supernatural and the macabre comes this collection of ghostly and chilling tales from Agatha Christie. Acknowledged the world over as the undisputed Queen of Crime, in fact she dabbled in her early writing career with mysteries of a more unearthly kind - stories featuring fantastic psychic visions, spectres looming in the shadows, encounters with deities, eerie messages from the Other Side, even a man who switches bodies with a cat....
This haunting compendium gathers together all of Christie’s spookiest and most macabre short stories, some featuring her timeless detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Finally together in one volume, it shines a light on the darker side of Agatha Christie, one that she herself relished, identifying 10 of them as ‘my own favourite stories written soon after The Mysterious Affair at Styles, some before that’.
Critic Reviews
"Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction." (Tana French)
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- petery53
- 17-12-2019
Not Agatha Christie
I find it very hard to believe Agatha Christie wrote this drivel, terrible stuff. If she did write it I can only think it was written in particular low point of her life
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- Anonymous User
- 18-01-2020
An excellent book
This collection of short stories, were a God send, as I was confined to my bed, over a couple of weeks. although I had heard a couple of the stories, because of them being on recent tv programmes, it was still excellent to hear them again. You won’t need to be ill to enjoy these
Offering. Well read, beautifully craft by the Queen of Crime. Can’t recommend them highly enough.
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- Cindy
- 30-05-2020
Loved every story
Fenella Woolgar is an excellent narrator and really brought the stories to life. I love Agatha Christie, it was her novels that got me into reading books instead of comics, many years ago.
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- Daniel S.
- 12-02-2020
Fantastic find!
I really enjoyed this, the narrator was excellent, very pleasant voice and well suited to the stories. Some of these are lesser known Christie stories and some are only indirectly related to the supernatural - but all are enjoyable.
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- Gundog Girl
- 24-07-2020
agatha christie at her best
I've listened to the whole audio book twice and could happily do so again. amazing plots and twists, fabulous characterisation, old friends and new popping up all over the place. everything you expect from agatha, but a bit different at the same time. unmissable for any christie fan. happy reading x
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- zoe
- 21-01-2021
love..
I love Agatha Christie and the compilation in this audio book is brilliant and keeps you on your toes till the very end.....
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