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In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: "Captain Trevelyan...dead...murder." Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately, his home is six miles away and, with snowdrifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on foot....
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 224
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The Sittaford Mystery
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 691
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In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: "Captain Trevelyan...dead...murder." Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately, his home is six miles away and, with snowdrifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on foot....
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4 out of 5 stars
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- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 155
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- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
The unassailable Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot travels to northern France to investigate a millionaire’s cry for help. Unfortunately, he arrives a day too late. Paul Renauld is found on a golf course in a freshly dug, shallow grave. Stabbed to death, he is in possession of a cryptic love letter. Pitting his wits against the hostile Paris Sûreté, Poirot is looking into Renauld’s past when another corpse surfaces on the same grounds - with wounds from the same murder weapon. But this time, the victim is a total stranger.
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The Secret of Chimneys
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5 out of 5 stars
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Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 375
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The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly harmless to Captain Hastings: There was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr. Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara, Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife Daisy, and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington. So Hastings was shocked when Poirot declared that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, the detective was ageing, but had his deductive instincts finally deserted him?
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Wonderful Finale.
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Fer-de-Lance
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The Under Dog and Other Stories
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A beautiful heiress has been found dead on a train. A playboy has been stabbed through the heart during a costume ball. An elderly woman suspects that she is being slowly poisoned to death. A prince fears for his reputation when his fiancée is embroiled in another man's murder. A forgotten recluse makes headlines after he is shot in the head. Who but Agatha Christie could concoct such canny crimes? Who but Belgian detective Hercule Poirot could possibly solve them? It's a challenge to be met - in a triumph of detection.
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Two standalone novels from the queen of mystery, Agatha Christie. From the sprawling Leonide family to dark moors, no one can spin a mystery quite like she can. In Crooked House, the Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection....
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- Unabridged
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When Cora Lansquenet is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard's will, Cora was clearly heard to say, "It's been hushed up very nicely, hasn't it.... But he was murdered, wasn't he?"
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hugh Fraser Forever!
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Hallowe'en Party
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- Unabridged
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At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce - a hostile thirteen-year-old - boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the "evil presence". But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double murderer.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A great Mystery
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The Hollow
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A far-from-warm welcome greets Hercule Poirot as he arrives for lunch at Lucy Angkatell's country house. A man lies dying by the swimming pool, his blood dripping into the water. His wife stands over him, holding a revolver. As Poirot investigates, he begins to realize that beneath the respectable surface lies a tangle of family secrets and everyone becomes a suspect.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hugh Fraser excellent narrator for Agatha Christie
- By Kathi on 02-17-14
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The Last Seance
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- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8
For lovers of the supernatural and the macabre comes this collection of ghostly and chilling stories from legendary mystery writer Agatha Christie. Fantastic psychic visions, specters looming in the shadows, encounters with deities, a man who switches bodies with a cat - be sure to keep the light on whilst listening to these tales. The Last Séance gathers 20 stories, some featuring Christie’s beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, in one haunting compendium that explores all things occult and paranormal, and is an essential omnibus for Christie fans.
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Mrs. McGinty's Dead
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- By: Agatha Christie
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 467
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Well, it's no wonder. The plot - suspicion for an elderly woman's murder falls on her mysterious lodger - is from Agatha Christie. The wonderful character happens to be the world's most famous sleuth, Hercule Poirot.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver Mystery
- By ButterflyRose on 09-06-15
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Third Girl
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- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 348
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 325
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Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient secretary. The second is an artist. The third interrupts Hercule Poirot's breakfast, confessing that she is a murderer - and then promptly disappears. Slowly, Poirot learns of the rumors surrounding the mysterious third girl, her family, and her disappearance. Yet hard evidence is needed before the great detective can pronounce her guilty, innocent, or insane.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Did she...or didn't she...that IS the question!
- By TwoBadWolves on 11-16-16
Publisher's Summary
Get away from it all with this selection of mid-summer murders by Agatha Christie, read by television’s Captain Hastings, the actor and novelist Hugh Fraser!
Summer. Holiday season. A time for rest and relaxation. But murder can strike anywhere, as this selection of an "unlucky 13" mysteries by Agatha Christie proves.
Join Hercule Poirot, Christopher Parker Pyne, Harley Quin and James Bond on this special holiday-themed collection, and take a dip into these short stories, perfect for killing time on the beach, by the pool - or at home, when planning to get away from it all.
Stories in this collection:
- "The Rajah's Emerald"
- "The Oracle at Delphi"
- "Wasp's Nest"'
- "A Death on the Nile"
- "Problem at Pollensa Bay"
- "Have You Got Everything You Want?"
- "Triangle at Rhodes"
- "The House at Shiraz"
- "Double Sin"
- "The Gate of Baghdad"
- "The Regatta Mystery"
- "The Pearl of Price"
- "The Man from the Sea"
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- Gary & Jay
- 09-28-19
Solid, Clever and Grand!
And not a formula in sight!
Snuggle down into these involving stories and go to Persia and many other exotic locations. When Dame Agatha went on holiday, she didn't fool around.
Highly recommend!
Jay Thomas
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- Elizabisses
- 11-04-19
Out of order
I really enjoy Hugh Fraser and Agatha Christie in general so this combination was fantastic except that whoever ordered the chapters clearly didn’t read them because they do not make sense in this order. The Oracle at Delphi chapter clearly belongs after the chapter in which Parker Pyne states that he is going to Delphi - even considering the “twist”.
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- A. Morrison
- 10-21-19
<br />fun listen
really enjoyed the stories and the voice of the narrator was both entertaining and crisp