Author:Agatha Christie,John Moffatt,Stephen Tompkinson,Full Cast
A blizzard has hit England. In the tiny village of Sittaford, on the fringes of Dartmoor, a party of six is gathered in Sittaford House, home of Captain Trevelyan. He has rented the house out for the winter and is staying in a nearby village. As evening draws in, a seance is proposed. The lights are lowered and the table turning begins: various questions are asked, and the guests are delighted when the table jerks and rocks, revealing the answers. But the game turns sour when the board spells out a terrible message - TREVELYAN DEAD. As the horrified participants look on, the table begins to rock again, and fear grips the party as the sinister word appears - MURDER. Is it a macabre joke, black magic or the truth? And who would kill a man who doesn't have an enemy in the world?
Affecting, frightening and, especially in Frost's dialogue, extremely amusing
—— ListenerA crisp, confident, ripely-characterized novel; exciting, ingenious, roundly satisfying
—— Literary ReviewHe has a faultless ear for the varied nuances of mid-Victorian English... [and] takes a wicked pleasure in creating a dense underlay of references, a blend of historical fact and other authors' fiction which lies beneath his narrative and occasionally erupts into it... Clever and hugely readable
—— Andrew Taylor , IndependentTaylor's skill ensures the book never loses its grip... Hugely enjoyable...Conan Doyle, Dickens and Wilkie Collins knew how to do it, and Taylor has learned his lesson well... A great read. It intrigues, diverts and delights. It is clever and intricate and huge fun
—— Susan Hill , GuardianTaylor is marking out a territory as distinct and disturbing as Greenland, with the same imperative towards moral inquisition and a flatlands melancholy that is all his own
—— Hilary Mantel , Sunday TimesIntricate and vividly realised
—— Daily TelegraphTaylor is utterly enthralling
—— Bob Monkhouse , GuardianIntricate and vividly realised...a pin-sharp recreation of 19th-century life
—— Robert Douglas-Fairhurst , Daily TelegraphTaylor has a lot of fun with his premise, and readers should too
—— Suzi Feay , Independent on SundayTaylor] creates a vivid, kaleidoscopic world that constantly shifts before the reader's eyes
—— Judith Flanders , Sunday TelegraphRobert Harris's bullet-paced thriller... [It's] impossible to put this book down
—— Literary ReviewAn elegant and highly readable thriller
—— Douglas Hurd , SpectatorHarris's feel for political manoeuvring is buttressed by a strong sense of place and good fast pacing which the craftsman sustains to the final page
—— Times Literary SupplementIntelligent, perceptive and enormous fun
—— GuardianThe most fun I've had with a novel in ages
—— Nicholas Blincoe , Books of the Year, New StatesmanKnee-deep in intrigue and bristling with incident... An edgy journey through the dark corridors of power, a witty portrait of political and literary falsehoods, and a masterclass in gripping storytelling, Harris's dynamic novel is a page-turner of the old school.
—— Sunday Times CultureA contender for top thriller of 2010
—— Sun (Best books of 2010)A turbo-charged page-flipper: you're on page 300 before you take a breath...Child is a master of distances, spaces and the physics of opposing forces
—— The Scotsman
zpostcode
Recruit
weather
mreligion
Yellowpages
sport
constellation
shopping
name
game
directory
literature
Word
tour
furnish
Lottery
tftnews
lyrics
News
digital
car
dir
Edu
Finance
