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A strange death in the desert and Poirot might just be too late…

Amy Leatheran had never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert to nurse the wife of a celebrated archaeologist, events prove stranger than she could ever have imagined. Her patient’s bizarre visions and nervous terror seem unfounded, but as the oppressive tension in the air thickens, events come to a terrible climax – in murder.

With one spot of blood as his only clue, Hercule Poirot must embark on a journey across the desert to unravel a mystery which taxes even his remarkable powers…

©1936 Agatha Christie Mallowan; (P)2001 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London UK Amateur Sleuths Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Thriller Crime Detective

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"Smooth, highly original, and completely absorbing." (New York Times)
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Another clever book from the typewriter of Mrs Christie. I liked the voice of the nurse giving the account. Very different from hearing the detective voiced by another male character. Kept me coming back to listen whenever I could. Excellent entertainment. Anna Massey voiced all the characters flawlessly.

Keeps you guessing. As always!

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As this is one of my favourite Poirot stories and having listened to the bbc radio version , I decided to try this. The fact that Anna Massey was the narrator was good as well (her reading Rebecca is fantastic). For the most part, she's great at this book too. However, her pronunciation of places names is just down right weird. Also, during the longer speeches, Poirot goes from being French- sorry, Belgian 😉 to a sort of German accent. It's a shame that lets it down a bit. I tend to listen to chunks at a time so the end part was split and I think this made it easier to handle the accent issue.

Shame about the accent

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I got some things right and picked up on a few interesting remarks from the characters, but for most of it, I was way off. I also liked the development and stories of some of the characters. Clever writing by Agatha Christie. But Anna Massey's narration is a bit bewildering at times.

Great Story That Kept Me Guessing

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A really good book ruined by completely unsuitable narration, which distracts from the content of the book and actually made me cringe quite a few times. The voice of the nurse is absolutely perfect, but all other voices are unsuitable to a certain degree. The worst one is Poirot’s accent: it is really bizarre and jarring, undulating in pronunciation between perfect English to remotely resembling French or German, but mostly some weird sounds delivered in a strong almost shouting voice at times, completely unsuitable for poirot’s character. I couldn’t relax listening to this book, getting pretty annoyed towards the end of the book. Finally, with a raging headache from the annoying voice, I have decided to return this title, which is a real shame.

Unsuitable headache-inducing narration

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This story started very well and the narrator was excellent as the nurse but she was not great at many of the male characters and her Poirot was not good at all. It's a shame.

Needed a better Poirot

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