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An old widow is brutally killed in the parlour of her cottage…Mrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes revealed traces of the victim’s blood and hair. Yet something was amiss: Bentley just didn’t look like a murderer.Poirot believed he could save the man from the gallows – what he didn’t realise was that his own life was now in great danger…

A collection of short stories featuring the ‘heart specialist’, Parker Pyne.Mrs Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly forlorn. But her life changed when she stumbled upon an advertisement in The Times which read: ‘ARE YOU HAPPY? IF NOT, CONSULT MR PARKER PYNE’.Equally adept at putting together the pieces of a marriage or the fragments of a murder mystery, Mr Parker Pyne was possibly the world’s most unconventional private eye – and certainly its most charming.

From the Queen of Crime, the first time all of her spookiest and most macabre stories have been collected in one volume.“Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: that pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction.”—Tana FrenchFor lovers of the supernatural and the macabre comes this collection of ghostly and chilling tales from legendary mystery writer Agatha Christie. Fantastic psychic visions, spectres looming in the shadows, encounters with deities, a man who switches bodies with a cat—be sure to keep the light on whilst reading these stories.The Last Séance gathers twenty tales, some featuring Christie’s beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, in one haunting compendium that explores all things occult and paranormal, and is an essential omnibus for Christie fans.