{"product_id":"9780008644116","title":"The Last Seance : Tales of the Supernatural by Agatha Christie","description":"From 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.                         `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 ten of them as `my own favourite stories written soon after The Mysterious Affair at Styles, some before that'.             Contains 20 stories:The Last S?ance  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          `Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction.' TANA FRENCH\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56221836673397,"sku":"9780008644116","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008644116.jpg?v=1762200423","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780008644116","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}