The Actress, Agatha	 Christie
The Actress, Agatha	 Christie
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The Actress
A Short Story

Author: Agatha Christie

Narrator: Alan Mahon

Unabridged: 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/17/2025


Synopsis

A rising star. A buried past. A dangerous game.

Acclaimed actress Olga Stormer has captivated audiences with her performances, but someone in the shadows knows the truth—before she was a star, she was Nancy Taylor. When a blackmailer from her past resurfaces, threatening to expose a secret she thought was long buried, Olga faces an impossible choice: pay the price or lose everything.

As tensions rise, she turns to her trusted manager, but no amount of planning can prepare them for what’s coming. With her career and engagement to a prominent politician on the line, Olga must outmaneuvre a man who thrives on fear. But when the game turns deadly, who will come out on top?

In this gripping short story, Agatha Christie delivers a tale of suspense, deception, and a woman willing to risk it all to protect her future.

Can Olga outplay a master manipulator, or will the curtain fall on her career—and her life?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne on February 17, 2023

A scuzzy dude attempts to blackmail a famous stage actress with her past. We're never told who or what it was that he's blackmailing her with, but it's implied that it had something to do with some embarrassment in her past life. You know, something along the lines of a bad marriage or whatever else......more

Goodreads review by Christi on February 19, 2022

Jake Levitt did not join in the clapping, but a slow, appreciative grin gradually distended his mouth. God! What luck! A Trap for the Unwary is a short story by Agatha Christie first published in The Novel Magazine in May 1923. Unlike most of her books, it isn't a mystery. Instead, it is a story......more

Goodreads review by Brooklyn on May 31, 2016

Short and sweet. The perfect short story to kick off my Agatha Christie one-story a night read <3 well, with breaks in between to read and re read full length AC books. I can't Fangirl enough over her. I'm just utterly in love with her writing <3......more

Goodreads review by Tom on September 25, 2024

What an ingenious way to outwit a blackmailer. A definitive Agatha Christie move.......more

Goodreads review by Shira on January 12, 2016

This story is really meaningful to me because, while on the face of it the main "action" of the story is about a young actress who must stop a blackmailer from going public about a man she once killed in self-defense, the actual deep structure of the story is about her wondering if she's actually a......more