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Dead Man's Folly

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: David Suchet
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About this listen

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 Crime Crime Thrillers Detective Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Murder

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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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The fact that it has been years since I read this book and couldn't remember who the killer definitely added to my enjoyment however this was just an added bonus as David Suchet had me hooked from the very beginning and I shall be listening to it again very soon no doubt.

Fantastic

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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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This is not my favourite Poirot tale, but was beautifully performed and intriguing as ever. Like an earlier reviewer said, it was a long time since I last read this and I too couldn't remember whodunit, so thoroughly enjoyable.

Very enjoyable

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With no idea what Miss Oliver wants him for he goes to Devon where he finds out what the problem is .
llots of intrigue and red herrings ,but I never expected the ending.

Dead man's Folly

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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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