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Three Act Tragedy

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
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A dinner party thrown by theatre actor Sir Charles Cartwright at his home in Cornwall ends in tragedy…

Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor’s house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died.

But when his martini glass was sent for chemical analysis, there was no trace of poison – just as Poirot had predicted. Even more troubling for the great detective, there was absolutely no motive…

©1934 Agatha Christie Mallowan; (P)2002 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London UK Crime Fiction Historical Mystery Traditional Detectives

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"Makes uncommonly good reading." (New York Times)
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A real who dunnit. , excellently performed, once one gets over the annoying high society speech in the beginning . Again Brilliant . Also Hugh Fraser a master narrator.

Brilliant

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A fairly typical Agatha Christie novel in which the characters don't seem terribly surprised or distressed by the sudden death of one of their dinner-party companions. The "theatrical" structure is interesting, but the outcome seems pretty obvious by today's standards. Poirot plays a relatively minor part in the story. Quality narration by Hugh Fraser. Would recommend for Christie fans.

Typical Christie, interesting structure.

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just before shutting down for supper they all had a cocktail, two had not had them before so tried one of them. Less than 5 minutes later one party members is dead.

Three act Tragedy

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I’ve never read /listened to this one before and it was quite involved but excellent.
I honestly did not see the ending coming . Enjoyable listen .

An Unusual Poirot

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Excellent story
Hugh Fraser makes these books come to life
Definitely up there with the top narrators
Agatha Christie at her best

Wonderful

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