Audio - Agatha Christie Titles 1999
New Audio - Agatha Christie Titles
1999
Agatha Christie
Miss Marple Gift Set
Published October 99 by HarperCollins Audio at £17.99
ISBN: 0-00-105602-6
Read by Joan Hickson
The Thirteen Problems Gift Set Includes:
The Bloodstained Pavement and Other Stories
The Blue Geranium and Other Stories
Death by Drowning and Other Stories
Joan Hickson played Miss Marple in the popular BBC television series.
3 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 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.'
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Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot Gift Set
Published October 99 by HarperCollins Audio at £17.99
ISBN: 0-00-105603-4
Read by David Suchet & Hugh Fraser
Includes:
The Kidnapped Prime Minister and Other Stories
The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge and Other Stories
Dead Man's Mirror
David Suchet plays Poirot & Hugh Fraser plays Captain Hastings in the popular TV series
3 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 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.'
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Agatha Christie
Dead Man's Mirror
Published November 99 by HarperCollins Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 0-00-105601-8
Read by Hugh Fraser
Sir Gervase Chevenix-Gore suspects he is the victim of fraud and contacts Hercule Poirot. The host's failure to answer to the dinner gong leads to the discovery of his body in the study.
A gun, a shattered mirror - the obvious inference is suicide until Poirot begins his investigation…
Hugh Fraser plays Captain Hastings 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.'
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Agatha Christie
The Blue Geranium and Other Stories
Published November 99 by HarperCollins Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 0-00-10555
Read by Joan Hickson
Includes:
The Blue Geranium
The Four Suspects
The Companion
A Christmas Tragedy
When her friends from the Tuesday Night Club visit Miss Marple's house the conversation often turns to unsolved crimes…
Four cases from the collection The Thirteen Problems, all of which confirm that in the sleepy village of St Mary Mead Miss Marple has observed enough about human nature to be more than a match for the most perspicacious investigator…
Joan Hickson played Miss Marple in the popular BBC television 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.'
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Agatha Christie
Death by Drowning and Other Stories
Published September 99 by HarperCollins Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 0-00-105600-X
Read by Joan Hickson
Includes:
The Herb of Death
The Affair at the Bungalow
The Thumb Mark of St Peter
Death by Drowning Death by Drowning
When her friends from the Tuesday Night Club visit Miss Marple's house the conversation often turns to unsolved crimes…
In these four mysteries from The Thirteen Problems, Miss Marple and the Club tease out the culprits for cases involving a girl wrongly accused of poisoning her husband, a meal where foxglove leaves are picked with sage to disastrous effect, a burglary at a riverside bungalow and the village innkeeper's daughter who met her ‘death by drowning'.
Joan Hickson played Miss Marple in the popular BBC television series.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 2 hours
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.'
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Agatha Christie
The Unexpected Guest
Published September 99 by HarperCollins Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 0-00-1055586-0
Read by Hugh Fraser
Adapted as a novel by Charles Osborne
The Unexpected Guest is considered to be one of the finest of Agatha Christie's mysteries, hailed as 'another Mousetrap' when it opened as a play in London's West End. Now Charles Osborne's novelisation brings her superb story to a new legion of fans.
When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog near the South Wales coast, and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband, gun in her hand. She admits to murder, and the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a cover story.
But is it possible that Laura Warwick did not commit the murder after all? If so, who is she shielding! The victim's retarded young half-brother or his dying matriarchal mother! Laura's lover? The father of a little boy killed in an accident for which Warwick was responsible? The house seems full of possible suspects...
Hugh Fraser plays Captain Hastings in the popular TV series
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 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.'
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Agatha Christie
The Kidnapped Prime Minister and Other Stories
Published August 99 by HarperCollins Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 0-00-105597-6
Side 1. The Adventure of The Western Star
Side 2. The Kidnapped Prime Minister
Side 3. The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan
The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
Side 4. The Million Dollar Bond Robbery (cont'd)
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's famous Belgian detective, uses his idiosyncratic approach to crime detection - applying logic rather than leg work - to solve five otherwise entirely baffling cases from the collection Poirot investigates. In the process he narrowly averts an international crisis, foils a mysterious plot to steal two priceless gems and defies the curse of a long-dead Egyptian King.
Read by David Suchet, who plays Poirot in the popular television series.
2 Tapes: Unabridged Approx 3 Hours Listening
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.'
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Agatha Christie
The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge and Other Stories
Published August 99 by HarperCollins Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 0-00-105599-2
Read by David Suchet
Side 1. The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim
The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge
Side 2. The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge (cont'd)
The Adventure of The Cheep Flat
Side 3. The Adventure of The Italian Noblemen
The Tragedy at Marsden Manor
Side 4. The Tragedy at Marsden Manor (cont'd)
The Case of the Missing Will
Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's famous Belgian detective, turns his attention to six more mysterious, apparently baffling, cases from the collection Poirot Investigates. Yet again his reliance on "the little grey cells" pays off as murder and mayhem abound.
Read by David Suchet, who plays Poirot in the popular television series.
2 Tapes: Unabridged Approx 2 3/4 Hours Listening
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.'
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Agatha Christie
The Bloodstained Pavement and Other Stories
Published August 99 by HarperCollins Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 0-00-105596-8
Side 1. The Tuesday Night Club
Side 2. Ingots of Gold
Side 3. The Bloodstained Pavement
The Idol House of Astarte
Side 4. The Idol House of Astarte (cont'd)
Motive v Opportunity
When her friends from the Tuesday Night Club visit Miss Marple's house the conversation often turns to unsolved crimes...
Trying to solve these five mysteries from The Thirteen Problems are Raymond West, a young writer, the artist Joyce Lempriere, Dr Fender the clergyman, who claims to know the hidden side of human character, and Mr Fetherick, a lawyer who is only interested in the logical approach. Sir Henry Clithering’s experience as commissioner of Scotland Yard speaks for itself.
And then there is Miss Marple, the gentle lady with snowy hair and pale blue eyes who betters them all...
Read by Joan Hickson who played Miss Marple in the popular BBC television series.
2 Tapes: Unabridged Approx 2 and a half Hours Listening
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.'