{"product_id":"9780008644116","title":"The Last Seance: Tales of the Supernatural","description":"Author: Agatha Christie\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780008644116\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 14 Feb 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 368 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\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\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, 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…\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContains 20 stories:\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Last Séance • In a Glass Darkly • The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb • SOS • The Fourth Man • The Idol House of Astarte • The Gipsy • Philomel Cottage • The Dream • The Lamp • Wireless • The Mystery of the Blue Jar • The Blue Geranium • The Wife of the Kenite • The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael • The Call of Wings • The Red Signal • The Flock of Geryon • The Dressmaker’s Doll • The Hound of Death\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction.’ TANA FRENCH\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46548089700510,"sku":"HPC-9780008644116","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780008644116.jpg?v=1771807189","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780008644116","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}