In this our ninth season, welcome to the latest episode of our current Tale for Our Time. If you hop over to our timely Tales home page, you'll find it displayed in Netflix tile style, with the stories organised by category - thrillers, fantasy, romance, etc - which we hope will make it easier for you to find your favorite serial. If it doesn't, please let us know. But you can now access seventy-four of our cracking yarns here - and all previous episodes of our current adventure, The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie, here.
And with that welcome to Part Eleven of our tale. In tonight's installment, the proceedings are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of the victim's son:
"Jack!" With a cry she folded him in her arms. "My dearest! But what brings you here? You were to sail on the Anzora from Cherbourg two days ago?" Then, suddenly recalling to herself the presence of others, she turned with a certain dignity, "My son, messieurs."
"Aha!" said M. Hautet, acknowledging the young man's bow. "So you did not sail on the Anzora?"
Members of The Mark Steyn Club can hear me read Part Eleven of The Murder on the Links simply by clicking here and logging-in.
If you've yet to hear any of our Tales for Our Time, you can do so by joining The Mark Steyn Club and enjoy our nightly audio adventures every evening twenty minutes before lowering your lamp - or hoard the episodes and binge-listen at the weekend or on a long car journey. Larry Durham, a South Carolina Steyn Clubber, can go either way:
Due to the busyness of business, the vagaries of life and the tumbling caused by civilizational collapse - I am forced into binging this Tale. But I hope to soon be caught up and back into lamp lowering mode. Cheers to you and all the members.
We hope to see you back among the lamp-lowerers, Larry. But for the moment, just as Captain Hastings is always five steps behind M Poirot, so Larry is always nine steps behind Hastings.
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