Agatha Christie was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Her reputation rests on 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections that have sold over two billion copies. Her works contain several regular characters with whom the public became familiar, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Parker Pyne and Harley Quin. In By the Pricking of My Thumbs, Tommy and Tuppence went to the nursing home to visit Tommy’s great aunt Ada Fanshawe. Three weeks later they went back for Miss Fanshawe’s funeral. When Tuppence was in Aunt Ada’s room sorting out her effects, she was drawn to a small oil painting of a house adjacent to a canal. Apparently, it was given by Mrs Lancaster. Tuppence asked Tommy for another trip so she could ask her whether she would have wanted the painting returned. To her dismay, the other had left the home a week beforehand. Her departure intrigued Tuppence. Furthermore, she remembered to have seen the house once from the train. As her tracking Mrs Lancaster did not come to fruition, she was convinced that if she had found the house then she would have found Mrs. Lancaster. Hot on her trail, along the way she met a “friendly witch”, found a dismembered doll in a chimney of an old house and discovered a cold case of children murders… Enjoy free online English audiobook “By the Pricking of My Thumbs”, a novel by Agatha Christie.
