Thursday, December 10, 2009

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

Audiobook by Agatha Christie - The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding… then the discovery of a corpse in a chest, but what can link these baffling cases?

The little grey cells of Monsieur Hercule Poirot! Feast yourself on these intriguing crime mysteries from the distinctive hand of the queen of crime fiction.

Stories include:

• The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
• The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
• Four-And-Twenty Blackbirds
• The Under Dog
• The Dream

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The ABC Murders

The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie. The lenght of this audiobook is 6 hours.
There’s a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way through the alphabet.

And as a macabre calling card he leaves beside each victim’s corpe the ABC Railway Guide open at the name of the town where the murder has taken place.

Having begun with Andover, Bexhill and then Churston, there seems little chance of the murderer being caught – until he makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans…
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4.50 From Paddington

Listen to 4.50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie, 6 hours in length

For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder.

Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman’s throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away.

But who, apart from Miss Marple, would take her story seriously?

After all, there were no suspects, no other witnesses… and no corpse.

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