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A Murder Is Announced
A Miss Marple Mystery
Miss Marple Mysteries: Book #5
By Agatha Christie
Narrated by Joan Hickson / 7 hours 47 minutes
A Murder is Announced in a small-town newspaper advertisement—and Miss Marple must unravel the fiendish puzzle when a crime does indeed occur.
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises “A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.”
A childish practical joke? Or a spiteful hoax? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, the locals arrive at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out and a gun is fired. When they come back on, a gruesome scene is revealed. An impossible crime? Only Miss Marple can unravel it.
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By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Joan Hickson
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
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By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Richard E. Grant
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
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By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Stephanie Cole
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
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By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Joan Hickson
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
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The Moving Finger
By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Richard E. Grant
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The indomitable sleuth Miss Marple is led to a small town with shameful secrets in Agatha Christie’s classic detective story, The Moving Finger.
Lymstock is a town with more than its share of scandalous secrets—a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate mail causes only a minor stir.
But all that changes when one of the recipients,... Read More »
A Murder Is Announced
By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Emilia Fox
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
A Murder is Announced in a small-town newspaper advertisement—and Miss Marple must unravel the fiendish puzzle when a crime does indeed occur.
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises “A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.”
A childish... Read More »
A Murder Is Announced
By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Joan Hickson
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A Murder is Announced in a small-town newspaper advertisement—and Miss Marple must unravel the fiendish puzzle when a crime does indeed occur.
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises “A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.”
A childish... Read More »
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By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Emilia Fox
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
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By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Joan Hickson
Length: 5 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
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By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Richard E. Grant
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
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By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Emilia Fox
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
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4:50 From Paddington
By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Joan Hickson
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In Agatha Christie’s classic mystery 4:50 From Paddington, a woman in one train witnesses a murder occurring in another passing one…and only Miss Marple believes her story.
For an instant the two trains ran side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth McGillicuddy stared helplessly out of her carriage window as a man tightened his grip around a... Read More »
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Joan Hickson
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: No
In Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, a fatal dose of poison meant for a glamorous movie star fells her ardent admirer instead—and Miss Marple is there to unmask a murderer.
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By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Emilia Fox
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
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By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Joan Hickson
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
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By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Emilia Fox
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
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By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Stephanie Cole
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
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Nemesis
By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Joan Hickson
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
In Agatha Christie’s baffling detective story, Nemesis, a letter from a dead man instructs Miss Marple how to conduct an investigation into a puzzlingly unspecific crime.
In utter disbelief, Miss Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr. Rafiel—an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. He had left... Read More »
Nemesis
By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Emilia Fox
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
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Narrated by: Stephanie Cole
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
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