Book description
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the
first time as an ebook.
When Mr. Satterthswaite visits a new exhibit at the Harchester
Galleries there is one painting with a male figure that bares a more
than unusual likeness to a mysterious acquaintance of his, a Mr. Quin.
And with one bold move purchases the canvas on the spot, and in another
invites the artist of 'The Dead Harlequin' to dine with him that night.
The dinner gets off on the wrong foot with the artist emphatically
disagreeing with most points and an empty place at the table ready for
the mysterious Mr. Quin to arrive. Conversation soon turns to the
setting of 'The Dead Harlequin,' the doomed and ghostly house, Charnley,
where so many have perished under tragic circumstances. But when a new
guest is announced, it is not the expected Mr. Quin, but, famed stage
comic actress Aspasia Glen, and she wants, above all else, that very
painting. But, in the very moment he begins to explain she can't have it
a frantic telephone call from Alix Charnley herself interrupts them with
the very same request. What is the meaning of the painting, and can it
shed any light upon the grave happenings at Charnley. 'The plots are
so good that one marvels … most of them would have made a full length
thriller.' Daily Mirror Agatha Christie is known throughout the world
as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in
English with another billion in over 100 foreign languages. She is the
most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold
only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels
and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the
name of Mary Westmacott.
