Audio - Crime 2001
New Audio - Crime Titles
2001
Lee Child
The Visitor
Published April 2001 by HarperCollins Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 0-00-711357-9
Read by Kerry Shale
Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook, both high-flying army career women forced to resign from the service, due to sexual harassment from their superiors, have been discovered dead in their homes. Naked, in baths filled with army-issue camouflage paint, their bodies completely unmarked. Expert FBI psychological profilers start the hunt for a serial murderer.
Jack Reacher, former US military cop, is a smart guy, as tough as they come and he knew both victims. For Agent-in-Charge Nelson Blake and his team he’s the perfect match. They’re sure only Reacher has the answers to their burning questions: how did these women die? And why?
In this compelling and ingenious thriller, award-winning writer Lee Child proves again that he is more than a match for the genre’s established names – and that Jack Reacher is a uniquely appealing hero, sometimes sensitive, usually unpredictable, often dangerous, but always one step ahead.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 4 hrs
About The Author
Lee Child was born in the industrial Midlands. He studied law, and worked for many years in commercial television. He has recently moved with his wife and daughter from Cumbria to New York State. His first two Reacher novels, Killing Floor and Die Trying, were both published by Bantam Press. Killing Floor was recently awarded the Anthony Award in America for the best first novel.
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Lee Child
Echo Burning
Published April 2001 by HarperCollins Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 0-00-711355-2
Read by Kerry Shale
Hitching rides is an unreliable mode of transport. In temperatures of over a hundred degrees, you’re lucky if a driver will open the door of his air-conditioned car long enough to let you slide in. That’s Jack Reacher’s conclusion. He’s adrift in the fearsome heat of a Texas summer, and he needs to keep moving through the wide open vastness. The last thing he’s worried about is exactly who picks him up.
He never expected it to be somebody like Carmen - alone, driving a Cadillac; beautiful, young and rich. She has a little girl who is being watched by unseen observers. Her husband is in jail and will beat her senseless when he comes out - if he doesn’t kill her first.
Reacher is no stranger to trouble. And at Carmen’s remote ranch in Echo County there is plenty of it: lies and prejudice, hatred and murder. Reacher can never resist a lady in distress. Her family is hostile. The cops can’t be trusted. The lawyers won’t help. If Reacher can’t set things straight who can?
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 4 hrs
About The Author
Lee Child was born in the industrial Midlands. He studied law, and worked for many years in commercial television. He has recently moved with his wife and daughter from Cumbria to New York State. His first two Reacher novels, Killing Floor and Die Trying, were both published by Bantam Press. Killing Floor was recently awarded the Anthony Award in America for the best first novel.
New Books by Lee Child at Amazon.co.uk
Secondhand and Out of Print Books by Lee Child at Alibris.com
Agatha Christie
Murder at the Vicarage
Published October 2001 by Macmillan Audio at £6.99
ISBN: 0-333-90849 X
Read by Ian Masters
Introducing Miss Jane Marple
It’s a historic event in detective fiction as the unflappable sleuth’s passion for gossip - and cheerful recognition of worst side of human nature - leads her to a crime scene at the local vicarage. Colonel Protheroe, St Mary Mead’s most loathed magistrate, has been found shot through the head. But it isn’t the ‘pompous old brute’s’ murder that raises eyebrows, but rather the scandalous secrets it exposes. Those secrets are about to put St Mary Mead on the map - and send Miss Marple on the trail of a killer with something to hide.
Ian Masters’ many screen credits include Red Dwarf, Piglet Files and The Hale and Pace Show. His theatre credits include The Winslow Boy, Run For Your Wife and Noises Off at the Savoy Theatre in the West End.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs
Abridged by Sarah Kilgarriff
Produced by Alaric Cotter
About The Author
Agatha
Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and
became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. She wrote 80 crime mysteries
and collections, and saw her work translated into more languages than Shakespeare. Her
enduring success, enhanced by many film and TV adaptations, is a tribute to the timeless
appeal of her characters and the unequalled ingenuity of her plots.
Agatha Christie says: 'I was born in Devonshire, and
had a very happy childhood with practically no lessons and lots of time to roam about the
garden and imagine things. 'It was my mother who told me to write. She was a woman of
great charm and great character, and was always convinced that her children could do
anything! I was in bed with a bad cold and she said, "You'd better write a short
story. Nonsense, don't say you can't! Of course you can!"
'For some years I enjoyed myself very much writing
stories of unrelieved gloom where most of the characters died. Also a good deal of poetry
and a novel with an impossible number of characters in it. Then I thought it would be fun
to try and write a detective story. It was an exciting day when The Mysterious Affair at Styles
was accepted and published. I was working as a dispenser at a Red Cross Hospital during
the First World War when I wrote it.
'As for my tastes, I enjoy my food, hate the
taste of any kind of alcohol, have tried and tried to like smoking, but can't manage it. I
adore flowers, am crazy about the sea, love the theatre, but am bored to death by the
talkies (and am very stupid at following them), loathe wireless and all loud noises,
dislike living in cities. I do a lot of travelling, mostly in the Near East, and have a
great love of the desert.'
New Books by Agatha Christie at Amazon.co.uk
Secondhand and Out of Print Books by Agatha Christie at Alibris.com
Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None
Published October 2001 by Macmillan Audio at £6.99
ISBN: 0-333-90851 1
Read by David Horovitch
Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to a mansion on an island off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U. N. Owen.
After dinner, a record begins to play, and an unknown voice accuses each person of hiding a guilty secret. That evening, former reckless driver Tony Marston is murdered by a deadly dose of cyanide.
The tension escalates as the survivors realise the killer is not only among them but is preparing to strike again . . . and again.
David Horovitch is well known for his role as Inspector Slack in the BBC Miss Marple Series. His other television credits include Poirot, French and Saunders, Deceit, Great Expectations and The Sculptress. His film credits include 101 Dalmatians and An Unsuitable Job for a Woman.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs
Abridged by Kati Nicholl
Produced by Michael Bartlett
About The Author
Agatha
Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and
became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. She wrote 80 crime mysteries
and collections, and saw her work translated into more languages than Shakespeare. Her
enduring success, enhanced by many film and TV adaptations, is a tribute to the timeless
appeal of her characters and the unequalled ingenuity of her plots.
Agatha Christie says: 'I was born in Devonshire, and
had a very happy childhood with practically no lessons and lots of time to roam about the
garden and imagine things. 'It was my mother who told me to write. She was a woman of
great charm and great character, and was always convinced that her children could do
anything! I was in bed with a bad cold and she said, "You'd better write a short
story. Nonsense, don't say you can't! Of course you can!"
'For some years I enjoyed myself very much writing
stories of unrelieved gloom where most of the characters died. Also a good deal of poetry
and a novel with an impossible number of characters in it. Then I thought it would be fun
to try and write a detective story. It was an exciting day when The Mysterious Affair at Styles
was accepted and published. I was working as a dispenser at a Red Cross Hospital during
the First World War when I wrote it.
'As for my tastes, I enjoy my food, hate the
taste of any kind of alcohol, have tried and tried to like smoking, but can't manage it. I
adore flowers, am crazy about the sea, love the theatre, but am bored to death by the
talkies (and am very stupid at following them), loathe wireless and all loud noises,
dislike living in cities. I do a lot of travelling, mostly in the Near East, and have a
great love of the desert.'
New Books by Agatha Christie at Amazon.co.uk
Secondhand and Out of Print Books by Agatha Christie at Alibris.com
Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Published October 2001 by Macmillan Audio at £6.99
ISBN: 0-333-908465 5
Read by Nigel Anthony
In the quiet village of King’s Abbot a widow’s suicide has stirred suspicion - and dreadful gossip. There are rumours she murdered her first husband, rumours that she was being blackmailed, and rumours that her secret lover was Roger Ackroyd.
Then Ackroyd is found murdered and all the members of the household stand to gain from his death. Hercule Poirot, who has retired to King’s Abbot to grow marrows, is reluctantly drawn into finding an extremely clever, and devious killer.
Nigel Anthony’s many television credits include Coronation Street, Casualty and Wycliffe. He is one of radio drama’s leading actors and has played hundreds of different roles. He has worked with Alan Ayckbourn’s theatre company and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs
Abridged by Neville Teller
Produced by Christopher Venning
About The Author
Agatha
Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and
became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. She wrote 80 crime mysteries
and collections, and saw her work translated into more languages than Shakespeare. Her
enduring success, enhanced by many film and TV adaptations, is a tribute to the timeless
appeal of her characters and the unequalled ingenuity of her plots.
Agatha Christie says: 'I was born in Devonshire, and
had a very happy childhood with practically no lessons and lots of time to roam about the
garden and imagine things. 'It was my mother who told me to write. She was a woman of
great charm and great character, and was always convinced that her children could do
anything! I was in bed with a bad cold and she said, "You'd better write a short
story. Nonsense, don't say you can't! Of course you can!"
'For some years I enjoyed myself very much writing
stories of unrelieved gloom where most of the characters died. Also a good deal of poetry
and a novel with an impossible number of characters in it. Then I thought it would be fun
to try and write a detective story. It was an exciting day when The Mysterious Affair at Styles
was accepted and published. I was working as a dispenser at a Red Cross Hospital during
the First World War when I wrote it.
'As for my tastes, I enjoy my food, hate the
taste of any kind of alcohol, have tried and tried to like smoking, but can't manage it. I
adore flowers, am crazy about the sea, love the theatre, but am bored to death by the
talkies (and am very stupid at following them), loathe wireless and all loud noises,
dislike living in cities. I do a lot of travelling, mostly in the Near East, and have a
great love of the desert.'
New Books by Agatha Christie at Amazon.co.uk
Secondhand and Out of Print Books by Agatha Christie at Alibris.com
Agatha Christie
They Do It with Mirrors
Published October 2001 by Macmillan Audio at £6.99
ISBN: 0-333-90854 6
Read by Rosemary Leach
When Jane Marple goes to stay with her old, and rather frail, friend Carrie-Louise at her sprawling Victorian Gothic mansion she soon begins to realize that all is not well there. Not only is this the family home but it is also a rehabilitation centre for delinquent boys and there are definitely some odd characters riving there.
Then an attempt is made on the life of Carrie-Louise’s husband, her stepson is shot to death and someone tries to poison Carrie-Louise. Can Miss Marple protect her friend and help the police unmask a brutal, and possibly deranged killer?
Rosemary Leach is well known for her many screen credits, which include three BAFTA nominations for Room With A View, That’ll Be The Day, and Cider With Rosie. Other television work includes The Buccaneers, The Charmer, The Jewel In The Crown and Down to Earth.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs
Abridged by Michelene Wandor
Produced by Sue Cokyll
About The Author
Agatha
Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and
became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. She wrote 80 crime mysteries
and collections, and saw her work translated into more languages than Shakespeare. Her
enduring success, enhanced by many film and TV adaptations, is a tribute to the timeless
appeal of her characters and the unequalled ingenuity of her plots.
Agatha Christie says: 'I was born in Devonshire, and
had a very happy childhood with practically no lessons and lots of time to roam about the
garden and imagine things. 'It was my mother who told me to write. She was a woman of
great charm and great character, and was always convinced that her children could do
anything! I was in bed with a bad cold and she said, "You'd better write a short
story. Nonsense, don't say you can't! Of course you can!"
'For some years I enjoyed myself very much writing
stories of unrelieved gloom where most of the characters died. Also a good deal of poetry
and a novel with an impossible number of characters in it. Then I thought it would be fun
to try and write a detective story. It was an exciting day when The Mysterious Affair at Styles
was accepted and published. I was working as a dispenser at a Red Cross Hospital during
the First World War when I wrote it.
'As for my tastes, I enjoy my food, hate the
taste of any kind of alcohol, have tried and tried to like smoking, but can't manage it. I
adore flowers, am crazy about the sea, love the theatre, but am bored to death by the
talkies (and am very stupid at following them), loathe wireless and all loud noises,
dislike living in cities. I do a lot of travelling, mostly in the Near East, and have a
great love of the desert.'
New Books by Agatha Christie at Amazon.co.uk
Secondhand and Out of Print Books by Agatha Christie at Alibris.com
Agatha Christie
Sparkling Cyanide
Published October 2001 by Macmillan Audio at £6.99
ISBN: 0-333-90848 1
Read by Nigel Anthony
At around table in the Luxembourg nightclub six people sit down to dinner at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary - in solemn memory of Rosemary Barton who died at the same table exactly one year previously.
No one present on that fateful night would ever forget the woman’s face, contorted beyond recognition - or what they remembered about her astonishing life. But which of those present has the murder of Rosemary Barton on their conscience?
Nigel Anthony’s many television credits include Coronation Street, Casualty and Wycliffe. He is one of radio drama’s leading actors and has played hundreds of different roles. He has worked with Alan Ayckbourn’s theatre company and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs
Abridged by John Hartley
Produced by Jane Morgan
About The Author
Agatha
Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and
became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. She wrote 80 crime mysteries
and collections, and saw her work translated into more languages than Shakespeare. Her
enduring success, enhanced by many film and TV adaptations, is a tribute to the timeless
appeal of her characters and the unequalled ingenuity of her plots.
Agatha Christie says: 'I was born in Devonshire, and
had a very happy childhood with practically no lessons and lots of time to roam about the
garden and imagine things. 'It was my mother who told me to write. She was a woman of
great charm and great character, and was always convinced that her children could do
anything! I was in bed with a bad cold and she said, "You'd better write a short
story. Nonsense, don't say you can't! Of course you can!"
'For some years I enjoyed myself very much writing
stories of unrelieved gloom where most of the characters died. Also a good deal of poetry
and a novel with an impossible number of characters in it. Then I thought it would be fun
to try and write a detective story. It was an exciting day when The Mysterious Affair at Styles
was accepted and published. I was working as a dispenser at a Red Cross Hospital during
the First World War when I wrote it.
'As for my tastes, I enjoy my food, hate the
taste of any kind of alcohol, have tried and tried to like smoking, but can't manage it. I
adore flowers, am crazy about the sea, love the theatre, but am bored to death by the
talkies (and am very stupid at following them), loathe wireless and all loud noises,
dislike living in cities. I do a lot of travelling, mostly in the Near East, and have a
great love of the desert.'
New Books by Agatha Christie at Amazon.co.uk
Secondhand and Out of Print Books by Agatha Christie at Alibris.com
Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express
Published October 2001 by Macmillan Audio at £6.99
ISBN: 0333908473
Read by Andrew Sachs
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of year. But by the morning there was one passenger fewer. An American lay dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside . . .
Red herrings galore are put in the path of Hercule Poirot to try and keep him off the scent, but in a dramatic dénouement he succeeds in coming up with not one, but two solutions to the crime.
Andrew Sachs is one of Britain’s busiest and most popular actors. Perhaps best known for his role as Manuel in Fawlty Towers he has also written for and acted in theatre, television and radio drama, as well as touring with his own stage show. Voice work includes television narration for countless documentaries, recordings of popular and classic audio books and albums of poetry.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs
Abridged by Angela Thomae
Produced by Sarah Kilgarriff
About The Author
Agatha
Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and
became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. She wrote 80 crime mysteries
and collections, and saw her work translated into more languages than Shakespeare. Her
enduring success, enhanced by many film and TV adaptations, is a tribute to the timeless
appeal of her characters and the unequalled ingenuity of her plots.
Agatha Christie says: 'I was born in Devonshire, and
had a very happy childhood with practically no lessons and lots of time to roam about the
garden and imagine things. 'It was my mother who told me to write. She was a woman of
great charm and great character, and was always convinced that her children could do
anything! I was in bed with a bad cold and she said, "You'd better write a short
story. Nonsense, don't say you can't! Of course you can!"
'For some years I enjoyed myself very much writing
stories of unrelieved gloom where most of the characters died. Also a good deal of poetry
and a novel with an impossible number of characters in it. Then I thought it would be fun
to try and write a detective story. It was an exciting day when The Mysterious Affair at Styles
was accepted and published. I was working as a dispenser at a Red Cross Hospital during
the First World War when I wrote it.
'As for my tastes, I enjoy my food, hate the
taste of any kind of alcohol, have tried and tried to like smoking, but can't manage it. I
adore flowers, am crazy about the sea, love the theatre, but am bored to death by the
talkies (and am very stupid at following them), loathe wireless and all loud noises,
dislike living in cities. I do a lot of travelling, mostly in the Near East, and have a
great love of the desert.'
New Books by Agatha Christie at Amazon.co.uk
Secondhand and Out of Print Books by Agatha Christie at Alibris.com
Agatha Christie
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Published March 2001 by HarperCollins Audio at £12.99
ISBN: 0-00-711526-1
Read by Joan Hickson
One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure. But for whom was the deadly poison really intended?
Marina’s frozen expression suggested she had witnessed something horrific. But, while others searched for material evidence, Miss Marple conducted a very different investigation - into human nature.
`The pieces finally drop into place with a satisfying click: Times Literary Supplement
Joan Hickson played Miss Marple in the popular BBC television series.
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs
About The Author
Agatha
Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and
became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. She wrote 80 crime mysteries
and collections, and saw her work translated into more languages than Shakespeare. Her
enduring success, enhanced by many film and TV adaptations, is a tribute to the timeless
appeal of her characters and the unequalled ingenuity of her plots.
Agatha Christie says: 'I was born in Devonshire, and
had a very happy childhood with practically no lessons and lots of time to roam about the
garden and imagine things. 'It was my mother who told me to write. She was a woman of
great charm and great character, and was always convinced that her children could do
anything! I was in bed with a bad cold and she said, "You'd better write a short
story. Nonsense, don't say you can't! Of course you can!"
'For some years I enjoyed myself very much writing
stories of unrelieved gloom where most of the characters died. Also a good deal of poetry
and a novel with an impossible number of characters in it. Then I thought it would be fun
to try and write a detective story. It was an exciting day when The Mysterious Affair at Styles
was accepted and published. I was working as a dispenser at a Red Cross Hospital during
the First World War when I wrote it.
'As for my tastes, I enjoy my food, hate the
taste of any kind of alcohol, have tried and tried to like smoking, but can't manage it. I
adore flowers, am crazy about the sea, love the theatre, but am bored to death by the
talkies (and am very stupid at following them), loathe wireless and all loud noises,
dislike living in cities. I do a lot of travelling, mostly in the Near East, and have a
great love of the desert.'
New Books by Agatha Christie at Amazon.co.uk
Secondhand and Out of Print Books by Agatha Christie at Alibris.com
Agatha Christie
The Unbreakable Alibi and other Stories
Published January 2001 by HarperCollins Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 0-00-104664-0
Read by James Warwick
Agatha Christie’s Partners In Crime
The House of the Lurking Death
The Unbreakable Alibi
The Clergyman’s Daughter
The Red House
The Ambassador’s Boots
Montgomery Jones has just met the most perfectly marvellous girl. But to win her attention, he must meet her challenge to break an "unbreakable alibi". All the evidence points to her being in London and Torquay at the same time. Which story is true?
Which is a lie?
Blunt’s brilliant detectives, the lighthearted Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, solve the mysteries in this collection in true Agatha Christie style.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 2 hrs 30 mins
About The Author
Agatha
Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and
became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. She wrote 80 crime mysteries
and collections, and saw her work translated into more languages than Shakespeare. Her
enduring success, enhanced by many film and TV adaptations, is a tribute to the timeless
appeal of her characters and the unequalled ingenuity of her plots.
Agatha Christie says: 'I was born in Devonshire, and
had a very happy childhood with practically no lessons and lots of time to roam about the
garden and imagine things. 'It was my mother who told me to write. She was a woman of
great charm and great character, and was always convinced that her children could do
anything! I was in bed with a bad cold and she said, "You'd better write a short
story. Nonsense, don't say you can't! Of course you can!"
'For some years I enjoyed myself very much writing
stories of unrelieved gloom where most of the characters died. Also a good deal of poetry
and a novel with an impossible number of characters in it. Then I thought it would be fun
to try and write a detective story. It was an exciting day when The Mysterious Affair at Styles
was accepted and published. I was working as a dispenser at a Red Cross Hospital during
the First World War when I wrote it.
'As for my tastes, I enjoy my food, hate the
taste of any kind of alcohol, have tried and tried to like smoking, but can't manage it. I
adore flowers, am crazy about the sea, love the theatre, but am bored to death by the
talkies (and am very stupid at following them), loathe wireless and all loud noises,
dislike living in cities. I do a lot of travelling, mostly in the Near East, and have a
great love of the desert.'
New Books by Agatha Christie at Amazon.co.uk
Secondhand and Out of Print Books by Agatha Christie at Alibris.com
Agatha Christie
The Cracker and other Stories
Published January 2001 by HarperCollins Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 0-00-104663-2
Read by James Warwick
Agatha Christie’s Partners In Crime
The Case of the Missing Lady
Blindman’s Buff
The Man in the Mist
The Sunningdale Mystery
The Crackler
"I have come to make you a proposition, Mr Beresford. What would you say to rounding up a really big gang?"
Someone is passing around an alarming quantity of counterfeit bank notes. Scotland Yard has asked Blunts’ Brilliant Detectives to ferret out the criminals.
Agatha Christie’s wonderful combination of wit and intrigue will delight you in this collection of short stories starring the dynamic detective duo, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs
About The Author
Agatha
Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and
became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. She wrote 80 crime mysteries
and collections, and saw her work translated into more languages than Shakespeare. Her
enduring success, enhanced by many film and TV adaptations, is a tribute to the timeless
appeal of her characters and the unequalled ingenuity of her plots.
Agatha Christie says: 'I was born in Devonshire, and
had a very happy childhood with practically no lessons and lots of time to roam about the
garden and imagine things. 'It was my mother who told me to write. She was a woman of
great charm and great character, and was always convinced that her children could do
anything! I was in bed with a bad cold and she said, "You'd better write a short
story. Nonsense, don't say you can't! Of course you can!"
'For some years I enjoyed myself very much writing
stories of unrelieved gloom where most of the characters died. Also a good deal of poetry
and a novel with an impossible number of characters in it. Then I thought it would be fun
to try and write a detective story. It was an exciting day when The Mysterious Affair at Styles
was accepted and published. I was working as a dispenser at a Red Cross Hospital during
the First World War when I wrote it.
'As for my tastes, I enjoy my food, hate the
taste of any kind of alcohol, have tried and tried to like smoking, but can't manage it. I
adore flowers, am crazy about the sea, love the theatre, but am bored to death by the
talkies (and am very stupid at following them), loathe wireless and all loud noises,
dislike living in cities. I do a lot of travelling, mostly in the Near East, and have a
great love of the desert.'
New Books by Agatha Christie at Amazon.co.uk
Secondhand and Out of Print Books by Agatha Christie at Alibris.com
Agatha Christie
Finessing the King and other Stories
Published January 2001 by HarperCollins Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 0-00-104662-4
Read by James Warwick
Agatha Christie’s Partners In Crime
A Fairy in the Flat
A Pot of Tea
The Affair of the Pink Pearl
The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger
Finessing the King
The Gentleman dressed in Newspaper
"And your idea is - ?"
"Three hearts stands for the Three Arts Ball, tomorrow night. 12 tricks is twelve o’clock, and the Ace of Spades is the Ace of Spades."
"And what about its being necessary to finesse the King?"
"Well, that’s what I thought we’d find out."
Finessing the King is one story in this entertaining collection. Each tale offers generous portions of mystery and suspense in Christie style.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 2 hrs 45 mins
About The Author
Agatha
Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and
became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. She wrote 80 crime mysteries
and collections, and saw her work translated into more languages than Shakespeare. Her
enduring success, enhanced by many film and TV adaptations, is a tribute to the timeless
appeal of her characters and the unequalled ingenuity of her plots.
Agatha Christie says: 'I was born in Devonshire, and
had a very happy childhood with practically no lessons and lots of time to roam about the
garden and imagine things. 'It was my mother who told me to write. She was a woman of
great charm and great character, and was always convinced that her children could do
anything! I was in bed with a bad cold and she said, "You'd better write a short
story. Nonsense, don't say you can't! Of course you can!"
'For some years I enjoyed myself very much writing
stories of unrelieved gloom where most of the characters died. Also a good deal of poetry
and a novel with an impossible number of characters in it. Then I thought it would be fun
to try and write a detective story. It was an exciting day when The Mysterious Affair at Styles
was accepted and published. I was working as a dispenser at a Red Cross Hospital during
the First World War when I wrote it.
'As for my tastes, I enjoy my food, hate the
taste of any kind of alcohol, have tried and tried to like smoking, but can't manage it. I
adore flowers, am crazy about the sea, love the theatre, but am bored to death by the
talkies (and am very stupid at following them), loathe wireless and all loud noises,
dislike living in cities. I do a lot of travelling, mostly in the Near East, and have a
great love of the desert.'
New Books by Agatha Christie at Amazon.co.uk
Secondhand and Out of Print Books by Agatha Christie at Alibris.com
