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The Mystery of the Blue Jar
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Narrator
- Christopher Lee
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 20 October 2016
- Run Time
- 43 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
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What to expect
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee.
Every morning, at the same hour whilst on the golf course, Jack Hartington hears mysterious cries for help. He speaks to a resident of the cottage from which the cries emanate and learns that she has unsettling dreams of a woman with a blue Chinese vase. Believing that the cries for help are from the late Mrs Turner, the former resident of the cottage, Jack hires a psychic investigator to spend a night in the house, a night which proves to have startling results…
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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
- Christopher Lee
- Duration
- 43 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 October 2016
- ISBN
- 9780008221874
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Occult fiction / Paranormal Horror, Classic fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: sense of place
Synopsis
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. Every morning, at the same hour whilst on the golf course, Jack Hartington hears mysterious cries for help. He speaks to a resident of the cottage from which the cries emanate and learns that she has unsettling dreams of a woman with a blue Chinese vase. Believing that the cries for help are from the late Mrs Turner, the former resident of the cottage, Jack hires a psychic investigator to spend a night in the house, a night which proves to have startling results…
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