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The Murder on the Links

A Hercule Poirot Mystery

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By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: John Rayburn
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The detective story was more or less invented by Edgar Allen Poe, but he more or less lost interest with the genre and moved on, with the next leading practitioner being Arthur Conan Doyle with his Sherlock Holmes tales. It was about thirty-three years before Agatha Christie entered the detective mystery field, and she wound up becoming one of the most well-known English authors of the twentieth century. Her success was so extraordinary she became the bestselling novelist of all time, with only the Bible and Shakespeare exceeding her sales.

Her accomplishments often came in unusual fashion, as she would be walking down a street and a plot idea would come to her. All this had begun when she had a poem published in a local London newspaper when she was only four years old. Remarkable, yes, but the extremely early beginning led to her tremendous success. She finally created a play, The Mousetrap, that began in 1952 and had more than 27,000 performances before being finally halted in mid-March, 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic. For now, let’s listen to one of her creations for the infamous Belgian detective/investigator Hercule Poirot. You can rest assured we’ll find out “whodunnit.”

(P)2022 John D. Rayburn Crime Fiction Mystery Traditional Detectives Detective Success Sherlock Holmes
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please don't waste your money on this narrative, it is the most mind numbing ever, sleep inducing monotonous story telling book I've ever heard.
A.C would be turning in her grave.

boring

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Was looking forward to this but the narration is just unlistenable. The reader is muddled, running sentences into another, there are audivle outside noises, avoid!

sound quality terrible

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This book was ruined for me by the narrator. His speech was unclear and it was difficult to distinguish the words. He read too fast making it hard to work out which character was talking. I gave up on this book fairly early on as I had no idea what it was about. Very disappointing.

Love Agatha Christie but not this one

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truly dreadful. The narrator ruined the story for me.
at times I couldn't understand
what he was saying

dreadful narrator

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Really struggled with this one. There is nothing wrong with Christie's story and Poirot's detection but this depiction of Hastings is awful. The American narration is at break neck speed yet has a flat affect and is not at all enjoyable. Sorry but I didn't like this at all, Christie's quintessential Englishness is missing and it doesn't work at all.

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