The Unexpected Guest: AND The Pale Horse (BBC Audio Crime) CD

This title features two BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations from the Queen of Crime. The Unexpected Guest - A foggy night...a lonely country house...and a woman with a gun in her hand quietly surveying the dead body of her husband. It looks like a straightforward case of murder. Or was 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...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 dramatised with full casts including Sion Probert and Stephanie Cole.

The Unexpected Guest: ; ; A foggy night a lonely country house and a woman with a gun in her hand quietly surveying the dead body of her husband. It looked like a straightforward case of murder. Or was it? As the ghosts of an old wrong begin to emerge from the past the case begins to look anything but straightforward... ; ; First staged at the Duchess Theatre in London in 1958 this play ran for 604 performances and is as gripping and ingenious as you would expect from the Queen of Crime. ; ; The Pale Horse: ; ; Father Gorman is called to a dingy rooming house to see a woman who before she dies confesses a bizarre tale to him. Leaving the house he is followed and in the fog a fatal blow is struck. A piece of paper with nine names written on it is found in the dead priest's shoe. The clue leads to The Pale Horse Inn home of three women: a psychic a medium and a witch. Can Mark Easterbrook and his friend Ariadne Oliver unravel the occult mysteries?