FEB/MAR 04 - AudioFile
Hugh Fraser will be familiar to listeners from the excellent PBS “Mystery” adaptations of Hercule Poirot novels in which he played the intrepid Hastings. Consequently, he makes a wonderful narrator here. These Audio Editions Mysteries cannot be recommended highly enough for quality of material and great performances at affordable prices. In this complicated maze of a mystery, people are dying in alphabetical order. Poirot knows there must be a method to this madness and digs deep to uncover a motive. Fraser is perfection itself at painting the tiny portraits of diverse individuals. Christie ties the whole canvas together to tell a complete story. To enter a world she has created is to escape your own for at least awhile, and, as is the case with any great vacation, you’ll be longing for the next time you can get away . . . with murder. D.G. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine
New York Times Book Review
A baffler of the first water.
New York Herald Tribune
Agatha Christie at her best.
Library Journal
These are the initial eight volumes in what will grow to 24 over two years in Black Dog's new "Agatha Christie Collection." The books are all decent-quality hardcovers for a bargain price. If you're regularly replacing your Christies, gives these more durable editions a try. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
From the Publisher
An entirely original idea.” — Daily Telegraph (London)
“Mrs. Christie has invented an entirely new plot for a detective story—a difficult thing in these days; she is to be congratulated on the perfection of her invention.” — The Times (London)
“Her best yet. Where does she get hold of these brilliant notions?” — Bristol Evening Post
“There is no more cunning player of the murder game than Agatha Christie.” — Sunday Times (London)
Bristol Evening Post
Her best yet. Where does she get hold of these brilliant notions?
Sunday Times (London)
There is no more cunning player of the murder game than Agatha Christie.
Daily Telegraph (London)
An entirely original idea.
The Times (London)
Mrs. Christie has invented an entirely new plot for a detective story—a difficult thing in these days; she is to be congratulated on the perfection of her invention.
FEB/ MAR 04 - AudioFile
Hugh Fraser will be familiar to listeners from the excellent PBS “Mystery” adaptations of Hercule Poirot novels in which he played the intrepid Hastings. Consequently, he makes a wonderful narrator here. These Audio Editions Mysteries cannot be recommended highly enough for quality of material and great performances at affordable prices. In this complicated maze of a mystery, people are dying in alphabetical order. Poirot knows there must be a method to this madness and digs deep to uncover a motive. Fraser is perfection itself at painting the tiny portraits of diverse individuals. Christie ties the whole canvas together to tell a complete story. To enter a world she has created is to escape your own for at least awhile, and, as is the case with any great vacation, you’ll be longing for the next time you can get away . . . with murder. D.G. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine
