The Invisible Host by Gwen Bristow
Brand: Dean Street Press
Product Description
Do not doubt me my friends you shall all be dead before morning. New Orleans 1930. Eight guests are invited to a party at a luxurious penthouse apartment yet on arrival it turns out that no one knows who their mysterious host actually is. The latter does not openly appear but instead communicates with the guests by radio broadcast. What he has to tell his guests is chilling that every hour one of them will die. Despite putting the guests on their guard the Hosts prophecy starts to come horribly true each demise occurring in bizarre fashion. As the dwindling band of survivors grows increasingly tense their confessions to each other might explain why they have been chosen for this macabre eveningand invoke the nightmarish thought that the mysterious Host is one of them. The burning question becomes will any of the party survive including the Host . . . The Invisible Host 1930 established one of the bestloved and most durable forms in classic mystery fiction. It was famously to reappear in Agatha Christies And Then There Were None 1939. How much Christies novel is indebted to its predecessor is open to conjecture and the subject is discussed in our new introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. Whatever the verdict readers will delight in The Invisible Host an innovative and most unusual mystery from the golden age of crime fiction. It was adapted into a play and a Hollywood movie as The Ninth Guest 1934. show more
Condition : New
Author : Gwen Bristow
Weight : 356
Publisher : Dean Street Press
Language : English
EAN : 9781914150838
ISBN10 : 191415083X
Format : Paperback Softback
Date of Publication : 20240314
Place of Publication : United Kingdom
Pagination : 208 Pages
Dimensions : 128 X 198 X 16