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Written by Agatha Christie - Audio book performed by David Suchet - Unabridged Fiction - 5 CASSETTES - 6 hours, 27 minutes

Publisher, Audio Partners (February 2002)

"Christie keeps her readers enthralled and guessing to the end." --Times Literary Supplement (from the original 1934 review)

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"[Agatha Christie was] a towering figure in the history of crime literature." - H.R.F. Keating in his article for the Dictionary of Literary Biography

The body of a beautiful and flirtatious actress is found strangled to death. Everybody is a suspect as voodoo practices, drug-smuggling, and religious mania are noted as part of the relevant evidence. Poirot unravels the crime with all the genius that his reputation has led us to expect. Agatha Christie never wrote a more cleverly woven story than this grim, yet delicious revelation of evil under the sun.

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: David Suchet may be most familiar to listeners from his role as Inspector Poirot, originally on PBS-TV's Mystery! and now on the Arts & Entertainment Network. In an interview published on the A&E web site, he says he'd love to portray Poirot in all the Christie novels focusing on him.

He has also appeared on Broadway as Salieri in Amadeus, as well as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (for which he won Best Actor, Critic's Circle Award), Oleanna (Best Actor, Royal Variety Club), and Timon of Athens (Best Actor, Evening Standard Award). He has also appeared in numerous films and has many other television credits. He may be heard as Inspector Poirot on two other Agatha Christie titles from The Audio Partners: The Mysterious Affair at Styles and Death on the Nile.