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After the Funeral

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
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Summary

When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance.

At the reading of Richard's will, Cora was clearly heard to say: "It's been hushed up very nicely, hasn't it...But he was murdered, wasn't he?"

In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery.

©1953 Agatha Christie Mallowan (P)2001 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London UK

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After the funeral

As usual an excellent Agatha Christi. I enjoyed it so much that I kept repeating the last 45 minutes to 1 hour 15 minutes, as I didn't want to get to the ending! I extended the time to read the conclusion by using sleep timer so I didn't miss the final ending.

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After the Funeral

It was lovely to hear Hugh Frasers voice again.

Well, what can I say..... your father dies, you go to the Funeral & wake then it's time for the reading of the will everyone's, happy,until one, of the daughters shouts up well, that was covered up well!! what do you mean the others asked? well, she said, the he was MURDERED! !!!!!!

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Hugh Fraser narrates perfectly

A little slower than other Christie's but still worth the listen. It's also interesting to see in 1953 how Britain was still strapped for cash after the war, high taxes, no eggs, and differing opinions towards refugees. Sounds familiar?

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as usual, excellent

so enjoying listening to these and Hugh Fraser is excellent at characterization. enjoying the whole series

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Reliably Christie

A good story and a very good reading by Hugh Fraser. I have listened to it twice.

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Enjoyed this greatly

Another in the AC cannon which I enjoyed. I’ve seen all the screen versions of it but I had Margaret Rutherford in my head. Murder at the Gallop is loosely based on this novel. Cracking simply cracking…

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Agatha, amazing as always!

Very nice history, I just love Hercule Poirot ❤️
Great narrator, keeps the story alive and interesting. Great French accent.

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beautifully read

A great story with quite a twist . I shall never look at tea shops quite the same

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Another narrator please!

The most frustrating thing about this audio book was the narration. Hugh Fraser’s Belgian accent was atrocious and he was unable to complete a full sentence lurching to and from queens English to a mock Belgian accent. The policeman from ‘allo ‘allo could have done a better job. Sadly it appears Mr Fraser was selected to do numerous narrations of the Christie catalogue, such a shame.

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A classic mystery

What did you like best about After the Funeral? What did you like least?

I liked the twist and turns of the story. At first you think it could be one person, then you doubt yourself and think it must be another. I did not like the narration. I thought it wasn't the best. I also thought, dispute an interesting plot, it wasn't one of Agatha Christie 's better novels.

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I really didn't enjoy the narration. I felt that many of the character's sounded the same.

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Not really.

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