Peril at End House (1932) by Agatha Christie I know, right? You’re thinking Well, I would have gone for The Sittaford Mystery, and you’re welcome to do so in your own list. So, here are five great séances from detective fiction, alpabetically by author. Now, to be clear, I’m with Charlie Brooker on psychics and other such manipulative awfulness, but have a real love of sleight of hand and up-close magic (as perhaps evinced in my enthusiasm for fair play detective fiction and impossible crimes therein) and a debunked séance is often a great way to explore the little ways a set of circumstances can be misrepresented, and often some fascinating insights come out of it. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, let’s call this meeting to order… Following a recent post on John Dickson Carr’s The Lost Gallows over at The Green Capsule, I was reminded of just how much I love a séance in fiction.
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