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Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Emilia Fox
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About this listen

An unabridged Agatha Christie mystery, featuring the young adventurers Lady ‘Frankie’ Derwent and Bobby Jones.

While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices his ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the crumpled body of a dying man. With his final breath the man opens his eyes and says, ‘Why didn’t they ask Evans?’

Haunted by these words, Bobby and his vivacious companion, Frankie, set out to solve a mystery that will bring them into mortal danger…

 Classics Crime Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Detective Thriller Golf Sports

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Critic reviews

‘A story that tickles and tantalizes but never exhausts the readers’ patience or ingenuity.’ Times Literary Supplement

‘Agatha Christie is the gateway drug to crime fiction both for readers and for writers.’ Val McDermid
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This is one of my favourite Agatha Christie stories and it was well read by Emilia Fox. Some of the voices were a bit odd, but overall well worth a listen.

I enjoyed this.

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I loved the story and the characters. Emilia Fox’s narration is excellent for the most part and you certainly have no problem knowing which character is speaking. But what a pity she tries non-Queen’s English - the “Welsh” accent is particularly weird.

Great story, shame about the weird accents

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Usual great Agatha Christie story - ms fox’s narration was not to my taste - her Welsh accent left much room for improvement.

Classic Christie

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Gripping, fun, exceptionally well read! Not the most famous story by Christie, yet it kept me guessing until the very end. 5 stars

Excellent narration

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A sunny day playing golf a scream a3/4 dead body unconscious he wakes to say why didn't they ask Evans? then dies
Who is Evans and who is the victim was he pushed or fallen?
These are the questions Bobby wants answers to but little did he know what he was getting into. A very intriguing storyline with lots of twists and misdirection really good audio book

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