Agatha ChristieFour and Twenty Blackbirds and Other Stories
Published August 2000 by HarperCollins Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 0-00-710343-3
Read by Hugh Fraser • Four-And-Twenty Blackbirds
• The Under Dog
• The Dream
An overheard quarrel that led to murder… the strange case of the dead man who altered his eating habits... and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide.
What links these baffling cases? The distinctive hand of the queen of crime fiction. Hugh Fraser plays Captain Hastings in the popular TV series
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.'
Titles by Agatha Christie at Amazon.co.uk
Agatha ChristieMiss Marple's Final Cases
Published July 2000 by HarperCollins Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 0-00-104689-6
Read by Joan Hickson The lady from St Mary Mead is back. She requires all her powers of detection to solve her final six mysteries:
• The man found dying in the church sanctuary
• The puzzle of Uncle Henry's hidden legacy
• The baffling mystery of the stabbing of Mrs Rhodes
• The question of the murderer with the tape-measure
• The case of Miss Skinner's maid
• The curious conduct of the caretaker Joan Hickson played Miss Marple in the popular BBC television series.
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.'
Titles by Agatha Christie at Amazon.co.uk
Agatha ChristieThe Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and Other Stories
Published August 2000 by HarperCollins Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 0-00-710342-5
Read by Hugh Fraser The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding... then the discovery of a corpse in a chest, but what can link these baffling cases? The distinctive hand of the queen of crime fiction.
Feast yourself on these two intriguing crime mysteries. Hugh Fraser plays Captain Hastings in the popular TV series
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.'
Titles by Agatha Christie at Amazon.co.uk
Agatha ChristieThe Wasp's Nest and Other Stories
Published July 2000 by HarperCollins Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 0-00-710344-1
Read by Hugh Fraser Includes:
Wasp's Nest
The Veiled Lady
The Third-Floor Flat
The Lost Mine
The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly
The Double Clue
Double Sin
Still in the formative years of his career, Hercule Poirot faces some of his most taxing cases. Here he turns his powers of deduction to some gripping whirlwind mysteries.
With every case in this collection, Poirot enhances his reputation as the greatest mind in detective fiction. Hugh Fraser plays Captain Hastings in the popular TV series
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.'
Titles by Agatha Christie at Amazon.co.uk
Agatha ChristieThe Triangle at Rhodes
Published April 2000 by HarperCollins Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 0001056085
Read by Hugh Fraser and The Incredible Theft
taken from Murder in the Mews The Triangle at Rhodes concerns a lonely wife, the use of poison, and a husband attracted to a lady on holiday in the Greek Islands with her fifth husband. The Incredible Theft gives us a dinner party, armaments and Air Force Ministers, a son with gambling debts, a ‘sensuous lady to whom men will tell all', missing plans, a figure running from the study and a 'ghost' on the stairs. Hercule Poirot, who fully understands human nature, is on hand to solve both crimes - of course. Hugh Fraser plays Captain Hastings in the popular TV series
2 Cassettes Running Time: 2 hrs 15 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.'
Titles by Agatha Christie at Amazon.co.uk
Agatha ChristieHow Does Your Garden Grow?
Published May 2000 by HarperCollins Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 0001056069
Read by David Suchet and other stories
Includes:
The Plymouth Express
The Submarine Plans
Problem at Sea
How Does Your Garden Grow?
The Market Basing Mystery David Suchet, Poirot to perfection, returns with five further short stories taken from the collection entitled Poirot's Early Cases.
Each story is entirely self-contained and shows all the essential Poirot qualities. Again we find Poirot's maxim ‘one must seek the truth from within - not without' proves highly efficient in his pursuit of the truth. Several of these stories have been featured in the extremely popular LWT series based on Agatha Christie's famous works. David Suchet plays Poirot in the popular TV series
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 2 hrs 15 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.'
Titles by Agatha Christie at Amazon.co.uk
Agatha ChristieThe Affair at the Victory Ball & Other Stories
Published February 2000 by HarperCollins Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 0-00-105605-0
Read by David Suchet Taken from Poirot's Early Cases
The Affair at the Victory Ball
The King of Clubs
The LeMesurier Inheritance
The Cornish Mystery
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
Five short stories are featured on this production covering some of the famous Belgian's assignments when he was becoming established as a private detective.
The stories are told through the words of Poirot’s assistant Captain Hastings and encompass a wide range of subjects, but always retaining the essential Poirot hallmark - the use of 'the little grey cells’ David Suchet proves himself a master of story-telling as you would expect from an actor who has become, in the eyes of the public, Hercule Poirot himself. David Suchet plays Poirot in the popular TV series
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.'
Titles by Agatha Christie at Amazon.co.uk
Agatha ChristieMurder in the Mews
Published February 2000 by HarperCollins Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 0-00-105607-7
Read by Nigel Hawthorne Taken from the collection Murder in the Mews
'Good night for a murder’, Inspector Japp remarked to Hercule Poirot as they walked home from a dinner on Guy Fawkes Night. 'Nobody would hear a shot, for instance, on a night like this.'
And indeed the next morning the two men are called to 14 Bardsley Gardens Mews to investigate a mysterious case of murder disguised as suicide.
2 Cassettes Running Time: 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.'
Titles by Agatha Christie at Amazon.co.uk
Agatha Christie4.50 from Paddington
Published February 2000 by HarperCollins Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 0001056042
Read by Joan Hickson For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman's throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away.
But who, apart from Miss Marple, would take her story seriously? After all, there were no suspects, no other witnesses... and no corpse. 'Never a dull moment.' The Times 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.'
Titles by Agatha Christie at Amazon.co.uk
Agatha Christie
Four and Twenty Blackbirds and Other Stories
