Spider's Web

De: Agatha Christie

Narrado por: Hugh Fraser

A classic from the queen of mystery: Agatha Christie.

Agatha is always fun!

So this Agatha Christie book is based on a play she wrote. It has all the standard ingredients--country house, wealthy people and their servants and a perplexing murder to be solved. What is missing--is any of the usual detectives we expect (Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy & Tuppence, etc).

However, this is still a very good book. The detectives she employs in this play/book (a local man and his constable) have much the flavor of the more well-known characters she created, so nothing at all suffered from that. What possibly did (in a very tiny way) was that this has been written in a style that suggests some things I do not believe Agatha would have said (she didn't say "sucks" nor hint at sexual things--one small reference that seemed uncharacteristic of her). The story did not suffer at all because of those things.In fact, since all of it takes place in one room--it was easy to visualize it being acted on stage--something I rather enjoyed.

Here is what is really great about this book: Hugh Fraser, who always reads her books very well, is exceptionally good with the voices and the reading of this one. I have heard several by him that I thought were just "so-so," but he outdid himself narrating this one! If you love Christie, this is a very good listen.

Great Agatha Christie! Lots of fun listening and good who done it too. Hugh Fraser did his usual great job narrating too.

This was a fun listen. A case of “where’s the body?” And a good murder mystery too. Just goes to show with or without Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot Agatha still keeps you on your toes.

Great listen

First, Hugh Fraser is a great narrator. Second, this story is fast paced, enjoyable, and has humor. Agatha Christie is a the master of short mysteries. I couldn’t take my headphones off.

definetly a good story but

more so than any other ive listened to, this story seemed to be a mishmash of other Agatha's tales.

Pretty good

Pretty good story. I'd read more by this author. Only thing I didn't like was that the author used a clever "solution" to one of the mysteries of the story that Christie had used in another of her novels.