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Loading... The Unexpected Guest: AND The Pale Horse (BBC Radio Collection)by Agatha Christie, BBC Radio
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. An enjoyable listen and fun who-done-it. Decided to read it after watching the two parter on Amazon Prime, called The Pale Horse. The show was good, but seemed a bit off for an Agatha Christie so decided to read the book. Wow, did the show take a whole lot of liberties, lots and lots of liberties, with the plot and characters! I enjoyed both the show and the book, but as independent things. The book is very true to Agatha Christie, extremely well plotted & plenty of dry humor. ( ) no reviews | add a review
The Unexpected Guest begins on a foggy night at a lonely country house, where a woman with a gun in her hand is quietly surveying the dead body of her husband. It looks like a straightforward case of murder. Or is it? As the ghosts of an old wrong begin to emerge from the past, the case begins to look anything but straightforward, and it is up to Sergeant Cadwallader and Inspector Thomas to discover the unexpected truth. . . In The Pale Horse, a dying woman gasps out her bizarre story to Catholic priest Father Gorman but no sooner has he written it down than he is violently killed. The only clue he leaves is a twisted scrap of paper on which are written nine names. On the trail of these names Inspector Lejeune, together with academic Mark Easterbrooke and his crime writer friend Ariadne Oliver, are led inexorably to The Pale Horse Inn, in the village of Much Deeping. The three women who live there a psychic, a medium, and a witch all seem to have some link to Father Gorman s death. And each of them has their own secrets. . . These two Agatha Christie stories, each with a twist in the tale, are dramatized with full casts including Sion Probert and Stephanie Cole.2 CDs. 2 hrs." No library descriptions found. |
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