{"product_id":"the-last-seance-by-agatha-christie-9780008644116","title":"The Last Séance","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the Queen of Crime, all of her spookiest and most macabre stories collected in one volume, including her earliest published story, 'The Wife of the Kenite', which is exclusive to this collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘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…’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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, 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…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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 ten of them as ‘my own favourite stories written soon after \u003cem\u003eThe Mysterious Affair at Styles\u003c\/em\u003e, some before that’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eContains 20 stories:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eThe Last Séance\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eIn a Glass Darkly\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eThe Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eSOS\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eThe Fourth Man\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eThe Idol House of Astarte\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eThe Gipsy\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003ePhilomel Cottage\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eThe Dream\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eThe Lamp\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eWireless\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eThe Mystery of the Blue Jar\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eThe Blue Geranium\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eThe Wife of the Kenite\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eThe Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eThe Call of Wings\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eThe Red Signal\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eThe Flock of Geryon\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eThe Dressmaker’s Doll\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eThe Hound of Death\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction.’ – Tana French\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072745947372,"sku":"9780008644116","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1275273482191.jpg?v=1765129840","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/the-last-seance-by-agatha-christie-9780008644116","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}