Murder on the Orient Express
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5,0 • 3 Bewertungen
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- 15,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
One of the very best Christie mysteries read by Hercule Poirot himself, David Suchet.
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of the year. But by the morning there was one passenger fewer. An American lay dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.
With tension mounting, detective Hercule Poirot comes up with not one, but two solutions to the crime.
Reviews
“Need it be said – the little grey cells solve once more the seemingly insoluble. Mrs Christie makes an improbable tale very real, and keeps her readers enthralled and guessing to the end.” Times Literary Supplement
“A brilliantly ingenious story.” Dorothy L. Sayers, Daily Herald
“Ingenuity at its height … the idea is utterly novel, the setting a model of realism, and the characters a versatile, attractive crew.” Woman’s Journal
“A piece of classic workmanship .. exquisite and wholly satisfying.” News Chronicle
About the author
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 100 foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.
Kundenrezensionen
The true Poirot
This is the best audiobook I have listened to in years. Not only is it one of Agatha Christies most well known and best Poirot stories, but it is read to the audience by David Suchet, also known as the actor of Poirot for more than a decade in the extremely successful TV adaptation.
I grinned multiple times throughout the read, as I have followed other performances of Mr. Suchet for quite some time now. Whenever he reads a female voice it strongly reminds me of his performance as Lady Bracknell in The importance of being earnest...which is not a bad thing at all. In fact he has a very fine voice and I felt like I was in the Orient Express as soon as he began reading the first sentence.
The audiobook takes 6.5 hours to finish — which I did in one go. It was a pleasure from beginning to end and I will buy all other Christie audiobooks with Suchet.
About the story: Dont expect the same plot as in the TV series or the Ustinov-movie. As this is a (audio) book and not a movie, we get a much deeper experience of whats really going on. Oh...and there is no Captain Hastings in this one (sorry Mr Ustinov), nor is there a religious Poirot as in the TV version. It is, like most of Poirots stories, a game of mind and what happens in the story makes perfect sense in the end (I will not talk about these new Poirot adaptations with nonsense clues in it...). If I had to rank the story I would say its one of the three best Poirot stories (Cards on the table being the best).
An easy 5 stars!