The Mystery of the Blue Jar by Agatha Christie. Short summary

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A young man on the golf course hears a woman screaming. No one else hears the screams. Dr. Levington thinks it’s all about the blue vase made of Chinese porcelain.

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Jack Harington came to a small town for a weekend to practice his golf game. One morning, while playing, he hears a woman scream: «Murder! Help!» The girl in the neighboring cabin is working in the garden and claims that she did not scream.

Two days later, the scream is repeated in the same place. At the hotel, Jack meets the famous Dr. Levington. They play golf together, and Jack hears the scream again, but the doctor does not.

Levington learns that a year ago the quiet Turner family lived in the cottage. One morning they disappeared. Now a French professor and his daughter live there.

Soon the girl at the cottage told me that she dreamt of a woman calling for help. She showed a picture of a lady and a blue jug. The doctor said it was all about the jug. Jack remembered seeing this jug at his collecting uncle’s house. Harington had taken the jug from his uncle to perform an Ouija board. But it turned out that Dr. Levington and the girl were crooks and had swindled Jack out of an expensive Chinese vase.