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The Unexpected Guest
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,437
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,434
Evan Evans is a young police constable who has traded in the violence of city life for idyllic Llanfair, a Welsh village tucked far away from trouble. Nestled among the Snowdonia mountain range, Llanfair looks to Constable Evans like a town forgotten by time, but he quickly learns that even the bucolic countryside has its share of eccentric - and deadly - characters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting....
- By brian on 01-22-17
By: Rhys Bowen
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Rules of Murder
- Drew Farthering, Book 1
- By: Julianna Deering
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 236
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 214
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Story4 out of 5 stars 217
From the tip of his black Homburg to the crease in his cheviot trousers, Drew Farthering is the epitome of a stylish 1930s English gentleman. His only problem? The body he just discovered. With the help of beautiful and whip-smart Madeline Parker, a guest from America, Drew proposes to use the lessons he’s learned reading his mysteries to solve the crime. Trying hard to remain one step ahead of the killer - and trying harder to impress Madeline - Drew must decide how far to take this dangerous game.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good British Cozy Except for the Religion
- By Marie on 08-19-13
By: Julianna Deering
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Bulldog Drummond
- By: Sapper
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
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- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4 out of 5 stars 38
Demobilised officer, finding peace incredibly tedious, would welcome diversion. Legitimate if possible; excitement essential. When Captain Hugh Drummond, DSO, MC placed that advertisement, he was looking for adventure. What he finds is an international plot headed by the greatest criminal mastermind in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Narration
- By nooch85 on 07-21-18
By: Sapper
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The Paddington Mystery
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- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
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When Harold Merefield returned home in the early hours of a winter morning from a festive little party at that popular nightclub, the Naxos, he was startled by a gruesome discovery. On his bed was a corpse. There was nothing to show the identity of the dead man or the cause of his death. At the inquest, the jury found a verdict of ‘death from natural causes’ - perhaps they were right, but yet?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not Everyone’s Cup of Tea, But I Enjoyed It
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Death in Kenya
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When Victoria Caryll is offered a position at Flamingo, her aunt's family estate in Kenya's Rift Valley, she accepts - knowing full well that the move will give her a chance to see Eden DeBrett once again, the man she was previously engaged to. But she doesn't realize that coming to her aunt's home will introduce her to an unstable region still recovering from the bloody Mau Mau revolt, and to a household thrown into grief by a recent murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliantly written suspense novel !
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By: M. M. Kaye
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Murder Has a Motive
- By: Francis Duncan
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4 out of 5 stars 54
When Mordecai Tremaine emerges from the train station, murder is the last thing on his mind. But he has never been able to resist anything in the nature of a mystery - and a mystery is precisely what awaits him in the village of Dalmering. Rehearsals for the local amateur dramatic production are in progress. When the star of the show is found dead, the spotlight falls on Mordecai, whose reputation in the field of crime-solving precedes him.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Oh dear....not what I’d hoped for
- By Kathi on 02-05-18
By: Francis Duncan
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A Fatal Obsession
- Ryder and Loveday, Book 1
- By: Faith Martin
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 347
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 314
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 304
Oxford, 1960. There's a murderer on the loose, and two unlikely heroes are poised to solve the case. Meet Probationary WPC Trudy Loveday - smart, enthusiastic and always underestimated. In the hope of getting her out of the way, Trudy’s senior officer assigns her to help coroner Clement Ryder as he re-opens the case of a young woman's death. She can't believe her luck – she is actually going to be working on a real murder case.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Just didn't buy it
- By Marie on 12-04-19
By: Faith Martin
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Epitaph for a Spy
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- Narrated by: Alexander Spencer
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 53
Vadassy was just another name on the guest list at the seedy Mediterranean Hotel until he was accused of spying. Then, suddenly, he was on everybody's list.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A breezy entry in the Ambler canon
- By Mr. Eyuz on 01-31-20
By: Eric Ambler
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A Gentleman's Murder
- By: Christopher Huang
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 882
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 737
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 732
The year is 1924. Only a few years removed from the trenches of Flanders, Lieutenant Eric Peterkin has just been granted membership in the most prestigious soldiers-only club in London: the Britannia. But when a gentleman's wager ends with a member stabbed to death, the victim's last words echo in the lieutenant's head: that he would "Soon right a great wrong from the past". Eric is certain one of his fellow members is the murderer. But who?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ignore the indiscriminate ire. It’s great!
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Pietr the Latvian
- Inspector Maigret, Book 1
- By: Georges Simenon, David Bellos - translator
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
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- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 886
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 783
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 782
The first audiobook which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel's atmosphere could not assimilate. Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn't have a moustache and he didn't wear heavy boots. His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light worsted. He shaved every day and looked after his hands. But his frame was proletarian. He was a big, bony man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Long live Maigret
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By: Georges Simenon, and others
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Daughters of Eden
- By: Charlotte Bingham
- Narrated by: Kim Hicks
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4 out of 5 stars 28
Daughters of Eden focuses on the lives and fortunes of four very different young women at the outbreak of the Second World War. Marjorie, left at a boarding school by her emigrating mother; plain Poppy, pushed into marriage with a mean-spirited aristocrat; Kate, despised by her father, but determined to prove herself; and man-mad Lily, who turns out to be the bravest of them all. That all of them are chosen to work undercover for the espionage unit at Eden Park is a surprise, not least to them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An amazing book everyone should read.
- By XX on 09-11-05
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The Shadow Killer
- By: Arnaldur Indridason
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 137
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Story4 out of 5 stars 116
Reykjavik, August 1941. When a travelling sales rep is found murdered in a Reykjavik flat, killed by a bullet from a Colt 45, the police initially suspect a member of the Allied occupation force. The British are in the process of handing over to the Americans, and the streets of Reykjavik are crawling with servicemen whose relations with the local women are a major cause for concern. Flovent, Reykjavik's sole detective, is joined by the young military policeman Thorson, the son of Icelandic emigrants to Canada.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Tawdry, depressing, and unsatisfying
- By Gail N. on 11-26-18
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The Eyre Affair
- A Thursday Next Novel
- By: Jasper Fforde
- Narrated by: Susan Duerden
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,696
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,176
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,177
In Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Worthy Read
- By chicagoalum on 01-21-10
By: Jasper Fforde
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Is it a gesture of goodwill or a sinister trap that lures Rupert St. Vincent and his family to a magnificent estate? How desperate is Joyce Lambert, a destitute young widow whose only recourse is to marry a man she despises? What unexpected circumstance stirs old loyalties in Theodora Darrell, an unfaithful wife about to run away with her lover?
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According to the courts, Jacko Argyle bludgeoned his mother to death with a poker. The sentence was life imprisonment. But when Dr. Arthur Calgary arrives with the proof that confirms Jacko's innocence, it is too late - Jacko died behind bars followinga bout of pneumonia. Worse still, the doctor's revelations reopen old wounds in the family, increasing the likelihood that the real murderer will strike again.
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It is Egypt in 2000 BC, where death gives meaning to life. At the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a ka-priest. Young, beautiful, and venomous, most agree that it was fate - she deserved to die like a snake! But at her father's house on the banks of the Nile, the priest's daughter Renisenb believes that the woman's death is suspicious. Increasingly, she becomes convinced that the source of evil lurks within their household - and watches helplessly as the family's passions explode in murder.
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Enjoy the first novels that brought the world two of Agatha Christies’ most enduring detectives: Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. The Murder at the Vicarage is the first Miss Marple mystery, one which tests all her powers of observation and deduction. In The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Captain Arthur Hastings, invalided in the Great War, is recuperating as a guest of John Cavendish at Styles Court, the "country-place" of John's autocratic old aunt, Emily Inglethorpe.
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Strange choice for a narrator
- By Krystyn on 10-28-12
By: Agatha Christie
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- Carroll C. Earnest
- 09-11-19
Suspenseful!
I think I liked this Agatha Christy mystery so much because I figured this one out before the end.
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- Umair Khan
- 10-02-15
Brilliant narration of a excellent whodunit
A classic christie with lots of twists and turns. Enjoyed the pace and the great atmosphere; and of course, it was a pleasure to hear Captain Hastings narrate it!
Highly recommended
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- Dane
- 12-07-18
So engaging
Very quick to get through, and the characters are all vwry likeable. The narrator is clear and denotes character voices well.
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- MJSKKS
- 09-25-18
Agatha does not disappoint
This story is shorter than many of the other Christie novels. Perfect for a quick road trip. Hugh Fraser delivers a great performance. Highly recommend!!
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- PiGilly
- 02-09-20
Best Turn Yet
I thought I knew but oh, was I wrong! I enjoy longer Christie books but I feel I got my monies worth on this one. It didn't disappoint
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- XAVIER BIRD
- 09-13-22
An Agatha Christie I’ve Never Read!
How have I missed this one! I didn’t think there was a single word she’d written that I hadn’t read. Great story!
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- Olivia
- 01-12-23
Wow!!!
This was really something else! Great story, fantastic narration. Another winner by Agatha Christie, and narrated by one of the best narrators of her works. Shorter novel but definitely worth the credit I used!
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- Moonelighte
- 05-18-16
Unexpected, indeed!
What did you love best about The Unexpected Guest?
At the outset, let me say that this was a totally logical ending, and should have been expected. Yet, with Mrs. Christie's tales, there is always a soupçon of doubt, right up to the last minute.
What about Hugh Fraser’s performance did you like?
Mr. Fraser is always excellent! I have never heard him give less than a stellar performance, whether by reading, or on the telly or cinema. My compliments and thanks.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Things are seldom what they seem...or are they?
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- Wellik
- 07-29-18
A little silly but fun
Some of the story jumped ahead in an improbable way but it was fun nevertheless with a surprise ending!
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- Customer
- 12-21-20
An awesome short mystery treat for a cold night
Another fine classic tale of suspense with all the twists and turns of a novel wrapped in a short story!
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