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By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
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Mystery and suspense surround a seance in a snowbound house on the edge of Dartmoor, where the prediction of a grisly murder is only the precursor to an ingenious deadly crime and one of Agatha Christie’s most gripping thrillers…

In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a small table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: ‘Captain Trevelyan… dead… murder.’

Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately, his home is six miles away and, with snow drifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on foot…

©1931 Agatha Christie Limited Classics Crime Thrillers Detective Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Crime

Critic reviews

“The Empress of the crime novel.”
Sunday Express

“An excellent book to take away for a weekend reading.” New York Times

“You can’t go wrong with this one, certainly the best of the always high-grade Christie items in quite some time.” Books
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I throughly enjoyed listenig to to the Book = full of excitement and
Thrills.
certainly one to listened to again

Brilliant

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great fun and beautifully reads as always by Hugh Fraser, who manages wide range of voicez

excellent narration and a lovely story

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Narrated very well by Hugh Fraser.
Agatha Christie did it again an interesting and challenging story where there were lots of different angles. I didn't get the right culprit but never mind it was an excellent audio book.. Looking forward to the next one.

The Sittaford Mystery

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If you could sum up The Sittaford Mystery in three words, what would they be?

Excellent, easy listen and good story

Who was your favorite character and why?

Emily - the principle investigator in this story

Have you listened to any of Hugh Fraser’s other performances? How does this one compare?

Hugh Fraser is an excellent reader, very easy to listen to and easy to identify the characters. He is very good reading the Agatha Christie stories - I have listened to many of these and will choose stories that Hugh Fraser reads as I know they are very easy to the ear and read in the spirit of the book.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes, an interesting twist on a supernatural story - fits in with several of the other Agatha Christie's (namely the Pale Horse) - interesting story line and nice twist at the end.

Any additional comments?

Excellent story, maybe not as good as the Pale Horse, but easy to listen to, read very expertly by Hugh Fraser. Easy listen. Please note that this story is based on the book and not the ITV adaptation (which has a different ending and involves Miss Marple)

Another excellent story read by Hugh Fraser

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What a great story this is, another winner from Agatha Christie and read so well by Hugh Fraser , was good to hear his voice again.

Superb

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