The Dead Harlequin
- Author Agatha Christie
- Narrator Hugh Fraser
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Run Time 52 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Adventure fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Fiction: pastiche, Historical crime and mysteries, Historical fiction, Short stories.
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What to expect
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio.
When Mr. Satterthswaite visits a new exhibit at the Harchester Galleries there is one painting with a male figure that bares a more than unusual likeness to a mysterious acquaintance of his, a Mr. Quin. And with one bold move purchases the canvas on the spot, and in another invites the artist of ‘The Dead Harlequin’ to dine with him that night. The dinner gets off on the wrong foot with the artist emphatically disagreeing with most points and an empty place at the table ready for the mysterious Mr. Quin to arrive. Conversation soon turns to the setting of ‘The Dead Harlequin,’ the doomed and ghostly house, Charnley, where so many have perished under tragic circumstances. But when a new guest is announced, it is not the expected Mr. Quin, but, famed stage comic actress Aspasia Glen, and she wants, above all else, that very painting. But, in the very moment he begins to explain she can’t have it a frantic telephone call from Alix Charnley herself interrupts them with the very same request. What is the meaning of the painting, and can it shed any light upon the grave happenings at Charnley.
Critics Review
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‘The plots are so good that one marvels … most of them would have made a full length thriller.’ Daily Mirror
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