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Bound to Talk: Murder on the Orient Express / Murder at the Vicarage / ABC Murders / 4:50 From Paddington
Four abridged audio books in one pack, by Agatha Christie: "And Then There Were None", "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd", "They Do It With Mirrors", and "Sparkling Cyanide".
- GenresMystery
Audio Cassette
First published June 21, 2002
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Agatha Christie
5,698 books76k followersAgatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.
Associated Names:
Agata Christie
Agata Kristi
Агата Кристи (Russian)
Агата Крісті (Ukrainian)
Αγκάθα Κρίστι (Greek)
アガサ クリスティ (Japanese)
阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂 (Chinese)
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.
Associated Names:
Agata Christie
Agata Kristi
Агата Кристи (Russian)
Агата Крісті (Ukrainian)
Αγκάθα Κρίστι (Greek)
アガサ クリスティ (Japanese)
阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂 (Chinese)
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December 27, 2020
Delightful collection, and looking forward to reading those I haven't yet read.
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Murder on the Orient Express
Another one from the writer that lends to a spectacular film - with the spectacular setting and the high profile story of a murder on the famous Orient Express from Istanbul to Paris, discovered while the snow has made the train stop, since a pass in the mountains in untraversable. There are a whole lot of charcters that could have done it - and the story unfolds to say what motive who had, as Monsieur Poirot happens to be at hand travelling on the train, willing and ready to conduct the investigation.
October 18, 2008.
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Murder at the Vicarage
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ABC Murders
What one recalls vividly, after several decades and more - not half a century yet, perhaps - of having read most of Christie, including this, is about how a good detective reads about the alphabetical order of three murders happening, manages to guess the next, and solves which was the real one, thereby solving who was behind it all - alphabetical twist being merely to throw dust in the eye, so to speak.
If one recalls correctly, D was real, E was prevented, and case solved.
December 27, 2020.
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4:50 From Paddington
An elderly woman on the train sees a man in another train running parallel throttling a woman to death, while he is oblivious to her watching - his back is to the window. She is thouroughly traumatised, and reports it as soon as she can at a railway station. But there is no dead woman on any train or a dead body dumped near any tracks anywhere possible where a parallel running train at that time could have stopped. And yet - she is sure, she saw the murder taking place, was not mistaken, dreaming of hallucinating. Fortunately she has an intelligent friend, another elderly woman, the fraile white haired Miss Marple.
October 18, 2008.
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Murder on the Orient Express
Another one from the writer that lends to a spectacular film - with the spectacular setting and the high profile story of a murder on the famous Orient Express from Istanbul to Paris, discovered while the snow has made the train stop, since a pass in the mountains in untraversable. There are a whole lot of charcters that could have done it - and the story unfolds to say what motive who had, as Monsieur Poirot happens to be at hand travelling on the train, willing and ready to conduct the investigation.
October 18, 2008.
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Murder at the Vicarage
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ABC Murders
What one recalls vividly, after several decades and more - not half a century yet, perhaps - of having read most of Christie, including this, is about how a good detective reads about the alphabetical order of three murders happening, manages to guess the next, and solves which was the real one, thereby solving who was behind it all - alphabetical twist being merely to throw dust in the eye, so to speak.
If one recalls correctly, D was real, E was prevented, and case solved.
December 27, 2020.
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4:50 From Paddington
An elderly woman on the train sees a man in another train running parallel throttling a woman to death, while he is oblivious to her watching - his back is to the window. She is thouroughly traumatised, and reports it as soon as she can at a railway station. But there is no dead woman on any train or a dead body dumped near any tracks anywhere possible where a parallel running train at that time could have stopped. And yet - she is sure, she saw the murder taking place, was not mistaken, dreaming of hallucinating. Fortunately she has an intelligent friend, another elderly woman, the fraile white haired Miss Marple.
October 18, 2008.
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November 1, 2021
I just reread the 4:50 from Paddington not the other 3 books (though I have read them before). Agatha Christi is one of my favorites and I can reread her books over and over. After one of Miss Marble's older friends witnesses a murder on a train going in the opposite direction - yes she really did - and reports it to the police who think she is a crazy old lady and though they investigate they don't find anything because she didn't see the man's face so can not identify him, or can she. What the book reminds us that some people have an need to be well to do and will go to any lengths to achieve that desire and sometimes they are the last people you would think.
April 7, 2022
When the impossible and justice combined. The best of all, Murder at the Orient Express.
October 6, 2024
The perpetrator was a surprise to me.
August 8, 2011
The best novel I've read!
very interesting, mysterious and controversial.
You’ll not regret after reading it.
very interesting, mysterious and controversial.
You’ll not regret after reading it.
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