Agatha Christie was an English detective novelist and playwright. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly 3 billion copies, and her estate claims that her works come third in the rankings of the world's most-widely published books. A few years prior to the start of the story, Mrs Bantry, a friend of Miss Marple, sold her home, Gossington Hall, in the village of St. Mary Mead. It passed through a number of hands until it is finally purchased and renovated by the film actress Marina Gregg and her fourth husband, Jason Rudd, another big name in the film industry. A few weeks after they have moved in, they open up the grounds and certain rooms of Gossington Hall in aid of the St John’s Ambulance. Throughout the day a select few of the guests are invited to take drinks with the famous actress and her husband in the house in an upstairs reception area. However, whilst the meeting and greeting of the guests are taking place, Marina Gregg, a usually attentive host, becomes distracted, virtually ignoring the woman speaking to her. Instead of paying attention to the woman, a Mrs Heather Badcock, the organiser of the event, her gaze is trained on something over the woman’s shoulder, her expression frozen and fearful. Moments later, Heather Badcock is dead… You can listen online to free English audiobook “The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side” by Agatha Christie on our website.
