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Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Listening Books
Narrator Hugh Fraser
Duration 14m
We interview actor Hugh Fraser, known for playing Captain Hastings in a number of Poirot TV adaptations, as well as narrating many Agatha Christie audiobooks.
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Hugh Fraser
Duration 6h 19m
From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What P...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Hugh Fraser
Duration 7h 15m
Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Now, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose. But the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information. Unfortunately, before he cou...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Hugh Fraser
Duration 5h 41m
It is World War II, and while the RAF struggles to keep the Luftwaffe at bay, Britain faces an even more sinister threat from "the enemy within": Nazis posing as ordinary citizens. With pressure mounting, the Intelligence service appoints two unlikely spies, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Their mission: to seek out a man and a woman from among the...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Hugh Fraser
Duration 5h 35m
Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband and wife double murder that is still an open verdict… Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. Here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies – a husband and wife – shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Hugh Fraser
Duration 5h 42m
The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings. There was his own daughter, Judith; an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton; dashing Mr Allerton; brittle Miss Cole; Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife, Barbara; Nurse Craven; Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife, Daisy; and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington. So Hasting...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Hugh Fraser
Duration 7h 15m
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a collection of antique books. While rustling through a copy of The Black Arrow, Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently random underlinings. However, when she wr...
View BookThe Mysterious Affair At Styles
Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Hugh Fraser
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 1
Duration 5h 57m
Agatha Christie's first ever murder mystery. After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, and the horror of violent death banished into memory. Captain Arthur Hastings is invited to the rolling country estate of Styles to recuperate from injuries sustained at the Front. It is the last place he expects to encounter mur...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Hugh Fraser
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 2
Duration 6h
On a French golf course, a millionaire is found stabbed in the back... An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But why is the dead man wearing his son's overcoat? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically murde...
View BookPoirot Series Book 19: Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Hugh Fraser
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 19
Duration 6h 8m
It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. But when Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the village with a friend for Christmas, offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had thei...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Hugh Fraser
Duration 6h 45m
Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress, shot through the heart from point blank range. The school is thrown into chaos when the "cat" strikes again. Unfortunately, sc...
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