The last sance - Agatha Christie

From the Queen of Crime, the first time all of her spookiest and most macabre stories have been collected in one volume.

'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 Sance
  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