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    The Listerdale Mystery

    Written by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Hugh Fraser

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    A flawless collection of short stories that Christie herself referred to as ‘light-hearted thrillers’.

    Twelve ingenious, witty mysteries showing the author at her best, including: the curious disappearance of Lord Listerdale, the strange meeting on a train of a feckless man and a beautiful girl, Philomel Cottage and the extraordinary country house visit of Edward Robinson. Each four-story volume is expertly narrated by Hugh Fraser.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 2, 2007
    ISBN9780007251001
    Author

    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

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    • 4/5
      I hadn't expected this to be a collection of stories, and didn't realise until I reached the second tale and found that it didn't follow on from the first! Clearly I wasn't paying attention, too eager to get stuck into an Agatha Christie whodunnit!

      It contains a mixed bag of short stories: some were intriguing and well thought out, others were a bit flat. I think her longer novels are much more enjoyable.

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    • 2/5
      Some rather meaningless little nuggets of mystery in this collection; I’m sure the current Marple TV series will eventually get around to adapting them – since their aim is just to keep going until Miss Marple investigates every case ever written by Agatha Christie. Maybe she’ll go up against the Hound of the Baskervilles when they’re done.

      You’ll notice I haven’t really written anything about this book; I guess I just didn’t find it interesting. Some of these stories were adapted as part of "The Agatha Christie Hour" alongside stories from "Parker Pyne Investigates".

      [US readers can find these stories divided between "Witness for the Prosecution" and "The Golden Ball"]
    • 4/5
      Great collection of well written short stories
    • 3/5
      An enjoyable enough read for a Sunday afternoon. A few of the short stories were nice. But mostly the twist/climax came before we could really care about the protagonists.
    • 1/5
      I don't remember a thing about this book. Short stories, none of them remarkable but enough to keep me reading to the end.
    • 4/5
      A collection of short stories, some are quite sweet, like the title story, others intruiging. I tend not to enjoy reading a collection of Christie's short stories as much as I enjoy the novels.
    • 4/5
      A collection of 12 short stories. The collection takes its title from the first story. Quite a number of the short stories had been published in magazines well before the collection was published.This is a funny little collection of stories, some quite entertaining and others a bit pedestrian. If there is a theme that Christie is exploring then it is probably the nature of love. In The Listerdale Mystery, Philomel Cottage, and Accident, which I thought were best in the collection, she plays with the twist in the tale, the unexpected ending.None of the stories has characters that we meet elsewhere (as far as I know).
    • 3/5
      Fun stories!