The Red Signal audiobook

I literally had to go through reviews to figure out who got shot at the end, lmao 🤣

What is a Red Signal?Dermot West tries to explain the concept to a group of people at a dinner party as a premonition he sometimes feels before he's in danger. When one of the guests, Sir Arlington, tells him it's all hogwash, Raymond tells of the time his Red Signal warned him before he was almost killed in Mesopotamia.However, he doesn't tell anyone that he's actually felt that same warning sign before he came there tonight. This is one of those batshit Christie plots but I loved it!Demont falls in love with a married woman, gets suspected of his uncle's murder, and ends up in a locked room with a psychotic killer.Batshit, I say!Good stuff, though. Recommended for Christie fans!Originally published in 1924 in The Grand Magazine.Read as part of the short story collection The Last Séance: Tales of the Supernatural.

First published in the UK in The Grand Magazine in 1924, this story was included in The Hound of Death story collection in 1933. It was not published in the United States until 1948 when it appeared in The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories. Christie brings forth a bit of the supernatural in this tale once again. A group at a dinner party have a lively discussion about the possibility of premonitions, and then are entertained by a medium. The medium issues a warning: Don't go home. There is danger there. As they each go home, that warning rings true. Great story! This one surprised me....loved it! This story is a bit more classic Christie than some of the others in the Hound of Death collection. I couldn't find an audio book copy of The Hound of Death (or print either!) so I listened to this story as part of The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (HarperAudio). The narrator was Christopher Lee (taken from an audio book of The Hound of Death, just like the stories from The Golden Ball and Other Stories that were previously from HOD). Lee is a perfect narrator for these supernatural/strange tales Christie wrote. His voice just lends itself to the theme!I didn't find any radio adaptations of this story. It was adapted for television (The Agatha Christie Hour, episode 8, 1982). The episode was good, but there are a few changes to the plot that I didn't think were necessary. But, even with the changes, it was entertaining. On to the next!

That was positively mad! (Pun intended).

This short story is not Parker Pine or Harley Quinn as it has been labeled . It is a very good non series detective short story .

4.5 Stars

What is madness??...We all practice a certain amount of self-deception, and when we carry it so far as to believe we are the Czar of Russia, we are shut up or restrained. But there is a long road before we reach that point. At what particular spot on it shall we erect a post and say,"On this side sanity, on the other madness?" It can't be done...if a man suffering from a delusion happened to hold his tongue about it, in all probability we should never be able to distinguish him from a normal individual. The EXTRAORDINARY SANITY of the INSANE is most interestingA nice little story with a clever twist... An extra point for the above quote...

A lovely, twisty short with a little bit of creepy. And they call Dame Agatha "cozy." hmpf

In this short story, we find ourselves going to a dinner and séance afterwards. In the séance, there is a warning about not going home made to three gentlemen. Inevitably they do go to their respective homes. There is a twist and turn at the end which helps the police nab the culprit. Definitely recommended

What a rather excellent short story. A very quick easy read. What is insanity? How do you prove it? Is it hereditary? Add in a seance and a murder and you have the makings of a great murder mystery novel.

Em uma mistura de investigação policial e visões sobrenaturais, este é um conto que realmente vale a pena ler.

Mr Quin. That is all.