• The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

  • A Miss Marple Mystery
  • By: Agatha Christie
  • Narrated by: Emilia Fox
  • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (569 ratings)

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The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Emilia Fox
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Publisher's summary

In Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, a fatal dose of poison meant for a glamorous movie star fells her ardent admirer instead—and Miss Marple is there to unmask a murderer.

One minute, silly Heather Babcock had been babbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure, poisoned by a deadly cocktail.

It seems likely that the cocktail was intended for the beautiful actress. But while the police fumble to find clues, Miss Marple begins to ask her own questions, because as she knows—even the most peaceful village can hide dark secrets.

©1962 Agatha Christie Limited (P)2012 HarperCollinsPublishers

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Bad narrator

This narrator is really not suited to Agatha Christie. She is squeaky , shrill and annoying

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  • EB
  • 02-03-16

Feeble Miss Marple

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The Miss Marple stories are usually my favorites, but in this one Emilia Fox has voiced her as so weak and retiring that poor Miss Marple always sounds as if she's speaking from her fainting couch. By contrast, the other characters sometimes sound as if they're shouting.

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Painful American Accents

I'm sorry, I tried to like this. I finished it but I felt like my ears were bleeding. Please, of you have the talent that she had with voices, practice your accents and don't put out this rubbish.

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Love Agatha Christie; hate reading

Great story from Agatha Christie but the reader is awful. Everyone has to be an actor I guess

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Excellent Agatha Christie

Emilia Fox is an excellent narrator, and she does a great job voicing the multiple characters in this charming British mystery.

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mixed feelings

Things I liked about it were that, although I did guess the murderer at one point, I kept wondering about it, so the ending was a bit of a surprise. Emilia Fox does most of the female voices very well. I enjoyed the descriptions of the village.

Things I didn't like about it. Nearly all of Emilia Fox's male voices (in this and other books) are truly awful. They sound like she's talking with laryngitis while holding her nose. In this and other books it even ruins their personalities I feel. One or two of the female voices are also not well portrayed. The story was needlessly long, with too much in depth description, side-characters, and restatement. The book could and should have been 2/3 the length. It probably would have been tighter and better. And with a different narrator, I might have liked it better.

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Not the best of Miss M

I love Miss Marple and she is still splendidly deductive here, as the story drags on and on as bodies pile up, and really she has little to do. It’s a long way around to her “simple” solution. The narration is uneven. Also not the best. But at least she finds a way to rid herself of her most annoying housemaid. We applaud.

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Horrible American accents

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

No. The American accents are awful! One of the main characters has an annoying upward inflection and ever R is so hard and over pronounced. If you like the English language, avoid this recording.

What did you like best about this story?

The story is great, the performance is not.

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Fantastic story; inexcusable narration

It seems to me that decent narrators ought to be able to:

1. Do the required accents reasonably
2. Be able to pronounce the names of main characters correctly

Emilia Fox can do neither. It is a travesty that she narrates so many of the Marple titles.

If you are interested in who may or may not have an interest in who's out to cause harm to Mariner Gregg, check this out. Her name is actually Marina, but apparently neither Ms. Fox nor the sound engineers cared enough to improve. Not one character sounds decent. But again, if nasal, grating or whiny are your thing...

Absolutely awful.

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  • LM
  • 11-06-21

Wonderful performance

Emilia Fox's skillful narration made this classic mystery even better than it is on the page. Great listen!

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