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Dead Man's Folly

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: David Suchet
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Complete and Unabridged Hercule Poirot Mystery

Read by David Suchet.

Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fête, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well known crime writer, agrees to organise their murder hunt.

Despite weeks of meticulous planning, at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot for his expert assistance. Instinctively, she senses that something sinister is about to happen…

Beware – nobody is quite what they seem!

©1956 Agatha Christie Limited. A Chorion Company. All rights reserved (P)2002 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London UK Amateur Sleuths Crime Fiction Detective Fiction Genre Fiction Mystery Small Town & Rural Traditional Detectives

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Critic reviews

"The solution is of the colossal ingenuity we have been conditioned to expect." (Times Literary Supplement)

"The infallibly original Agatha Christie has come up, once again, with a new and highly ingenious puzzle-construction." (New York Times)
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I love Ariadne Oliver, both as Poirot's flamboyant friend and as Christie's own alter ego. This 1956 novel whips along, weaving confusion to the point where Poirot himself is baffled, even his moustache droops with dejection. Funny, clever and entertaining, this is top-class Christie.
David Suchet does a great job of bringing all the characters to life. However, the abrupt ending made me wonder if something had been chopped off!

Another bafflingly good mystery!

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Fab narration as always by Hugh. The story dragged on. And on. Not the best. Still finished it.

Fab narration. The story dragged on

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He has annoying habit of starting sentences in a loud voice, but trailing off so quietly you can barely hear the last few words of the sentence. Maybe that works when you have mics all around as an actor and can do overdubs, but here it means you have to constantly rewind or crank the volume up so high that the next sentence starts off in high decibels. Also he does this very often with Poirot himself - and when he goes soft - his French slur makes it even harder to hear what he is saying.
I knew when he narrated that someone was going to whisper that this was going to be inaudible, and without a turn of the volume knob it was.
Can't someone please educate him on this? I can't be the first person to notice it.

Suchet is a terrible narrator

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While Dead Man's Folly isn't my favourite of Agatha Christie novel's, David Suchet's narration is, as always, wonderful. The author Ariadne Oliver is one of Poirot's more unusual friends and crops up from time to time in his books. When she summons him at short notice, you know that something interesting will follow.

Wonderful as always

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David suchet is the perfect narrator for such a story, I could listen to him for days

Always loved this story

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This audiobook is greatly enhanced by David Suchet's excellent narration. It's a well written and engaging story, well paced and beautifully delivered by David Suchet. I have read this book several times over the years, but it is still a pleasure to revisit this old favourite.

A very enjoyable book

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the old house, the story within a story, Poirot being foxed it had everything

a great mystery

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Love David Suchet. Great voices and he really brings this well plotted story to life

Great read well told

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Usual AC standard, great twists and turns as the story goes along. I really enjoyed the narration of David Suchet, fantastic performance.

Great Story

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Love the story, love the delivery. Can not enthuse about this too much. Love Love Love

Love it!

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