A Murder Is Announced cover art

A Murder Is Announced

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

A Murder Is Announced

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Full Cast, Ian Lavender, Jamie Glover, June Whitfield
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £8.99

Buy Now for £8.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

 'A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29, at Little Paddocks, at 6:30pm. Friends please accept this, the only intimation.' Nestled among the usual notices about dogs for sale and appeals for domestic help, the startling entry in the personal column of the Chipping Cleghorn Gazette has the entire village agog with curiosity. Is it a game? And who is meant to attend? The mistress of Little Paddocks, Letitia Blacklock, is also taken completely by surprise. Suspecting her nephew of a practical joke, she's sure of one thing: half the village will be converging on the house expecting a glass of sherry. Sure enough, the evening sees a crowd of residents standing expectantly in the drawing-room. Then the clock strikes the half-hour, the lights go out, and three gunshots ring in the dark. When the lights go back on, the promised murder has been committed. Can Miss Marple work out what has happened and why? One of Agatha Christie's most intriguing mysteries is dramatised with a full cast including Ian Lavender and Jamie Glover. Dramatisations Entertainment & Performing Arts Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Murder at the Vicarage cover art
Murder At The Vicarage cover art
The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side cover art
The Body In Library cover art
At Bertram's Hotel (Dramatised) cover art
4.50 From Paddington cover art
A Pocket Full Of Rye cover art
A Caribbean Mystery cover art
Sleeping Murder cover art
The Moving Finger cover art
The Mysterious Affair At Styles cover art
Nemesis cover art
The Sittaford Mystery cover art
Towards Zero cover art
They Do It With Mirrors cover art
More from Marple's Casebook cover art
All stars
Most relevant
I have really enjoyed the dramatisation of A Murder is Announced. It kept me guessing for a while.

Agatha Christie at her best

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A first class dramatisation of one of Christie's classic murder mysteries - this one is one of the best - one of my favourite stories of hers, and one of the best dramatisations of all of her stories and I have nearly all of them and listen to them all regularly. Enjoy!

A Classic!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Yet another intriguing murder mystery from Agatha Christie well produced by the BBC and acted with full professional cast from some of the best English actors. A Murder is Announced is such fun. I enjoy listening to this at least a couple of times per year. It is what I call ‘comfort’ listening. The storyline is so unrealistic yet enjoyable because it is all pure fantasy fun.

FUN MURDERS By AGATHA

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Superb performance of a classic. Excellent cast, June Whitfield is an extremely credible Marple. Story is wonderfully far fetched but all the better for it! Lovely short Marplesque musical interludes add to the listening pleasure. A relaxing Sunday afternoon listen.

A drama to die for!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Fantastic if you are a fan of agatha Christie then it is a great one to listen to.I look forward to finding more.

A Murder is announced

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews