num_pages: 284
description: Guests at a New Orleans party face a mysterious and deadly host in the widely suspected inspiration for Agatha Christies And Then There Were None. When eight guests arrive for a party at a luxurious New Orleans penthouse their unknown host is nowhere to be found. Then speaking to them through radio broadcast he informs them of the evenings chilling theme: every hour one of them will die. As the hosts prophecy comes horribly true the dwindling band of survivors grows desperate to escape their fate. To discover their tormentors identity they must each reveal their darkest secrets and find the common threadbut confessions may not be enough when they realize that one of them may be the killer. First published in 1930 this classic mystery was adapted into the Hollywood film The Ninth Guest. It bears a striking resemblance to Agatha Christies bestseller And Then There Were Nonewhich appeared nearly a decade later.
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title: The Invisible Host
publisher: Kessinger Publishing