Sophie Hannah. Morrow, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-245882-7
Set in October 1929, bestseller Hannah’s captivating sequel to 2014’s The Monogram Murders finds Hercule Poirot and Scotland Yard’s Insp. Edward Catchpool visiting Lady Athelinda Playford’s mansion in Clonakilty, County Cork, in the Irish Free State.
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Sophie Hannah. Morrow, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-062297-21-1
Hannah (The Orphan Choir) does a superb job of channeling Agatha Christie in this wholly successful pastiche authorized by the Christie estate. One evening in February 1929, Hercule Poirot is dining alone at a London coffee shop when a woman arrives
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Agatha Christie, Author Putnam Adult $16.95 (346p) ISBN 978-0-396-08747-2
Fans of the amiable, omniscient Miss Marple will be delighted by the first publication in one volume of all 20 short stories that Christie centered on the elderly sleuth. Wearing her black lace mittens, Miss Marple sits in her chair, knitting and...
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Agatha Christie, intro. by Mathew Prichiard. Harper, $29.99 with CD (544p) ISBN 978-0-06-207359-4
Originally published in 1977 and out-of-print, this new edition of Christie’s autobiography includes a CD of the grand dame of mystery authors expounding on her life as a writer—making it especially welcome as a holiday treat for all Christie fans....
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Agatha Christie, Author, James Warwick, Narrated by , read by James Warwick. BBC Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60283-337-1
James Warwick delivers a virtuoso performance in this rendition of Agatha Christie's spy thriller. As WWII spreads across Europe, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, former British Intelligence agents and a married couple, are enlisted to uncover...
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Agatha Christie, read by Christopher Lee, AudioGo, six CDs, 8 hrs., $59.95 ISBN 978-0-7927-7663-5
Christopher Lee delights in his reading of Christie's stories including "The Hound of Death," "The Red Signal," "The Fourth Man," "The Gypsy," "The Lamp," and others. His solidly paced, rich, vaguely aristocratic narration captures the suspenseful...
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Agatha Christie, read by Rosemary Leach, BBC Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 8.5 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-6028-3903-8
After a curious newspaper notice announces an upcoming murder in the quiet village of Chipping Cleghorn, a host of nosy neighbors turn up at Little Paddocks just as shots ring out and a dead body is discovered. When the police arrive and call the...
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Agatha Christie, read by David Suchet. AudioGO, unabridged, seven CDs, 8.5 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-60998-474-8
Listeners will recognize narrator David Suchet from his titular role on the long-running British television series Poirot. As such, it comes as no surprise that he delivers a masterful performance, capturing the great detective’s Belgian accent and...
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Agatha Christie, read by Alison Larkin. British Classic Audio, , unabridged, digital download, 7 hrs., $30 ISBN 978-1-942846-05-5
Reader Larkin is an excellent choice to narrate this delightful classic from mystery maven Christie. It is 1919, the Great War is over, and the roaring ’20s are just on the horizon in London. Tommy Breseford and Prudence “Tuppence” Cowley are young...
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Agatha Christie, read by a full cast. AudioGO, library edition, unabridged, two CDs, 1.5 hrs., $24.95 ISBN 978-0-7927-8912-3
Sean Baker’s performance of Colonel Race—one of Christie’s minor sleuths, probably best-known for his supporting role in the Hercule Poirot tale Death on the Nile—is reminiscent of the great Clive Merrison’s rendition of Sherlock Holmes. Baker,...
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Agatha Christie, Author, Hugh Fraser, Narrated by , read by Hugh Fraser. BBC Audiobooks America $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60283-346-3
The classic 1959 Christie tale is revisited in this utterly charming and intriguing murder mystery in which two teachers find the body of the new games' mistress in the gymnasium, the latest victim of the so-called “cat” killer....
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Agatha Christie, Author, David Suchet, Read by , read by David Suchet. AudioEditions $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57270-248-6
Audio Reviews reflect PW's assessment of the audio adaptation of a book and should be quoted only in reference to the audio version.FictionEVIL UNDER THE SUN: A Hercule Poirot MysteryAgatha Christie, read by David Suchet. AudioEditions,...
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Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser, BBC/AudioGO, unabridged, six CDs, 7.5 hrs., $26.95 ISBN 978-1-60998-010-8
Hugh Fraser turns in a stellar performance in this audio version of Christie's classic mystery. When bored diplomat Stafford Nye meets a mysterious young woman at an airport lounge in Frankfurt, he learns her life in in danger and is drawn into a...
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Agatha Christie, Author, Hugh Fraser, Narrated by, Hugh Fraser, Read by , read by Hugh Fraser. AudioEditions $27.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57270-432-9
One of mystery fiction's most beloved heroes, Hercule Poirot, is brought vividly to life in this delightful audio production. Originally published in 1927, this outing thrusts Poirot into one of Christie's most outlandish and melodramatic...
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Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser. AudioGO, unabridged, five CDs, 5 hrs., $11.95 ISBN 978-0-7927-7673-4
This audio version of Poirot's final case is masterfully narrated by Hugh Fraser, familiar to Christie fans as the actor who played Captain Hastings in the television series, Agatha Christie's Poirot. Now elderly and infirm, the Belgian sleuth and...
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Agatha Christie, Author, Hugh Fraser, Read by , read by Hugh Fraser. Audio Partners $27.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57270-731-3
Who could be better reading this recording of Christie’s 1952 classic than Hugh Fraser, who not only has done several audio versions of her novels but who also plays Captain Hastings in those lovely TV adaptations starring David Suchet as...
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Agatha Christie, Author, Hugh Fraser, Read by , read by Hugh Fraser. Audio Partners $27.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57270-564-7
Fraser, who played Captain Hastings, the sidekick for arch Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in the PBS Mystery
series, now performs the entire cast in Christie's 1955 mystery. Fraser's Poirot is derivative of the stellar performance of the...
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Agatha Christie, Author, Hugh Fraser, Read by , read by Hugh Fraser. Audio Partners $27.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57270-533-3
Hercule Poirot fans will be pleased to hear Hugh Fraser, who plays Captain Hastings on PBS's Mystery!
and A&E's Poirot
, recount Christie's intriguing 1948 novel (published in the U.S. as There Is a Tide
). The celebrated Belgian...
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Agatha Christie, Author, Rosalind Ayres, Read by , read by Rosalind Ayres. Audio Partners $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57270-557-9
It hardly seems possible for anyone to best Hugh Fraser’s savvy audio performance of Christie’s Hickory Dickory Dock, but Rosalind Ayres produces an amazing range of voices and accents to create her own one-woman full-cast audio book....
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Agatha Christie, Author, James Saxon, Narrated by , read by James Saxon. BBC Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60283-578-8
James Saxon delivers a memorable and absolutely masterful performance of Christie's first Miss Marple mystery. When the wildly unpopular Colonel Protheroe is found murdered in the vicar's study, it seems that everyone—his unhappy...
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Agatha Christie, Author, Mary Westmacott, Author Minotaur Books $25.99 (656p) ISBN 978-0-312-27322-4
For those truly unable to get enough of the perennial queen of mystery, St. Martin's has reissued Absent in the Spring, a collection of three novels by Agatha Christie writing under the pen name Mary Westmacott. The clipped prose and careful...
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Agatha Christie, Author, Charles Osborne, Author, Charles Osborne, Adapted by St. Martin's Press $22.95 (221p) ISBN 978-0-312-19241-9
Christie biographer Osborne's adaptation of the grande dame's 1930 play has been blessed by the Christie estate and heartily endorsed by her grandson Michael Prichard. It's a classic ""someone in this room is the murderer"" tale set in 1934....
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Agatha Christie, Author, Charles Osborne, Author, Charles Osborne, Adapted by St. Martin's Press $23.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-312-24262-6
As he did with Black Coffee (1998), Osborne has taken one of Christie's original play scripts and turned it into a (slight) novel. For those who can't see the play in production or who find a script dull or difficult reading, Osborne's adaptation...
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Charles Osborne, Adapted by, Agatha Christie, Author, Charles Osborne, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-26650-9
Osborne completes his homage to Christie with this third and final adaptation of an original Christie play, following Black Coffee (1998) and The Unexpected Guest (1999). Though the play was written in 1954, the story suffers little from the passage
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Agatha Christie. Morrow, $16.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-295914-0
The 20 selections in this unremarkable collection of Christie tales with a supernatural angle offer minimal scares. Notwithstanding the subtitle, several are simply baffling mysteries with a rational explanation, as the presence of Hercule Poirot...
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Agatha Christie. Morrow, $16.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-303036-7
The dozen stories in this welcome reprint collection, most featuring Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Christie’s other series detectives, amply display the author’s storytelling gifts. The strongest is a standalone that originated as a radio play, “T
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Agatha Christie. Morrow, $16.99 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-314234-3
The 14 entries in this fine collection amply display Christie’s gifts as a short-form storyteller, though it’s a bit of stretch to label them all love stories. Her best-known creations, Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, distinguish themselves, as do...
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Naomi Alderman et al. Morrow, $28.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-313605-2
In this disappointing anthology of authorized pastiches featuring Agatha Christie’s Jane Marple, some contributors fail to play fair with readers by not sharing the clues the elderly amateur sleuth relies on, and almost none of the tales effectively
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Sophie Hannah, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. HarperAudio, , unabridged, 9 CDs, 10 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-0-06-256176-3
Hannah’s second estate-sanctioned addition to Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot finds the brilliant, amusingly self-centered Belgian sleuth in 1929, attending a house party from hell. Neither he nor Scotland Yard Insp. Edward Catchpool, the novel’s...
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