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  • The Mystery of the Blue Jar: An Agatha Christie Short Story

  • By: Agatha Christie
  • Narrated by: Christopher Lee
  • Length: 42 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (29 ratings)

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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…
©1933 Agatha Christie Ltd (P)1998 HarperCollins Publishers
Cosy Detective Fiction Mystery Short Stories Small Town & Rural Suspense Traditional Detectives
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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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The mystery of the blue jar

Really good short story, would recommend to everyone who likes status Christie, well laid out unexpected ending!

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