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The House of Lurking Death
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Narrator
- Hugh Fraser
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 2 October 2025
- Run Time
- 36 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: women sleuths / detectives, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, Classic fiction: literary and general, Short stories, Fiction based on or inspired by true events, Fiction: pastiche
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What to expect
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.
Throwing on an almost convincing French accent, Tommy is determined to be the great Hanaud to his and Tuppence’s latest, rather lovely client. Miss Hargreaves has recently received a box of chocolates from nobody knows who, and due to her dislike of them was the only one to not fall foul of the arsenic spiked treats. But, Miss Hargreaves is not the first recipient of such a gift; three other large country houses have received arsenic laced chocolates. But Miss Hargreaves is holding something back, and it will take Tommy and Tuppence to take up residence at the old house to discover the true culprit, but will they find out the truth in time?
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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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Details
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Narrator
- Hugh Fraser
- Duration
- 36 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 October 2025
- ISBN
- 9780008804077
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: women sleuths / detectives, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, Classic fiction: literary and general, Short stories, Fiction based on or inspired by true events, Fiction: pastiche
Synopsis
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook. Throwing on an almost convincing French accent, Tommy is determined to be the great Hanaud to his and Tuppence’s latest, rather lovely client. Miss Hargreaves has recently received a box of chocolates from nobody knows who, and due to her dislike of them was the only one to not fall foul of the arsenic spiked treats. But, Miss Hargreaves is not the first recipient of such a gift; three other large country houses have received arsenic laced chocolates. But Miss Hargreaves is holding something back, and it will take Tommy and Tuppence to take up residence at the old house to discover the true culprit, but will they find out the truth in time?
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