List $29.95Written by Agatha Christie - Audio book performed by John Moffatt - Unabridged Fiction - 6 CASSETTES
Publisher, Audio Partners (January 2004)
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"Christie keeps her readers enthralled and guessing to the end." --Times Literary Supplement
"Smooth, highly original, and completely absorbing." --The New York Times (reviewing the book, Murder in Mesopotamia)
"Agatha Christie's claim to supremacy among the classical detective story writers of her time rests on her originality in constructing puzzles. This was her supreme skill... She was the supreme mistress of a magical skill that is a permanent, although often secret, concern of humanity: the construction and the solution of puzzles." --Julian Symons, in Agatha Christie : First Lady of Crime
"I strongly suspect that future scholars of the simon-pure detective novel will hold that its greatest practitioner... has been Agatha Christie." --Anthony Boucher, The New York Times (and himself considered the foremost mystery reviewer of the 20th century)
"Dame Agatha's forté was supremely adroit plotting and sharp, believable characterization… The reader would turn the pages mesmerized as unexpected twist piled on unexpected twist until, in the end, he was taken by surprise. There was simply no outguessing Poirot or Miss Marple - or Agatha Christie." --Max Lowenthal, The New York Times, upon Christie's death in 1976
When Miss Katherine Grey unexpectedly inherits a small fortune, she books the famous Blue Train for a trip to the French Riviera. Her new milieu includes millionaire Ruth Kettering, Ruth's estranged husband, a French mistress, and an inquisitive foreign man with an egg-shaped head and waxed moustache. But Nice is not so nice, for on arrival the gendarmerie asks Miss Grey to ID the strangled body of one of the pampered passengers and for the great Hercule Poirot's help in solving the crime.
About the Author: Agatha Christie (1890-1976) became the Queen of the Golden Age of British fiction. In all, she wrote 95 novels, 21 plays, numerous short stories and screenplays, poetry, and a series of novels using the pen name Mary Westmacott. Her play, The Mousetrap, has run continuously in London's theater district since its premiere in 1952, breaking all records. She is the most widely published novelist of all time in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. The Mystery Writers of America named her Grand Master in 1955, based on the high quality of the body of her work and her contributions to the genre. She was the first writer ever to be so designated. She was voted Best Mystery Writer of the 20th Century in September 2000 at the Bouchercon Mystery Convention, the largest mystery convention in the world.
About the Performer: John Moffatt has performed in numerous major London stage productions. He has also played on Broadway and spent three years with the National Theater at the Old Vic. He has recorded a number of audiobooks, including Christie's Hallowe'en Party (September 2003). Moffatt has also recorded several Christie titles dramatized by the BBC.
