Jack Harrington spends his morning on the golf court. The peace is however interrupted by screams coming from a nearby cottage. There he finds Felise, a French girl who tells him about a weird and scary dream of a lady with a blue Chinese vase who cries for help. Harrington is aghast. Because this is not the first time he hears about such a lady. Does he actually know her? What happened to her and what does she have to do with Felise? Find out the answers in Agatha Christie’s short story ”The Mystery of the Blue Jar”.
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Agatha Christie was an English writer who lived in the period 1890-1976. She is best known with her detective novels and short stories such as ”Murder on the Links”, ”The Mystery of the Blue Jar”, ”And Then There Were None”. The recipe for a great Agatha Christie novel is a smart detective, a series of clues, some suspects, a long expected solution, suspense and plotting. However she was implying that human’s nature is for the most part the same no matter what the case is. This is also the path that her main characters Lady Marple and detective Poirot followed in many of their investigation cases.
Agatha Christie, called by many ”Queen of Crime” or ”Queen of Mystery”, is the best-selling author of all times. One can only find out why after embarking on an exciting and thrilling journey through her works.