Death On The Nile By Agatha Christie, read by David Suchet

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Death On The Nile By Agatha Christie, read by David Suchet

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Christie and Poirot! On board a Nile steamer, Hercule Poirot meets Linnet Doyle, a woman who appears to have everything: youth, beauty, style, wealth, and a loving husband. When tragedy strikes, it's also clear she has an enemy: Doyle is shot through the head. As the complications multiply, detective Poirot is faced with airtight alibis. His "little grey cells" kick into overdrive. Through the Belgian's brilliant deductions, Christie displays her own genius. Eccentric and fastidious, egocentric and precise, the little Belgian detective with his sparkling eyes and carefully waxed moustache looks, to the uninitiated, ridiculous. Just a dandified foreigner. Plump, barely over 5 feet, four inches tall, the vain Poirot is nevertheless eternally dignified, and always wears formal clothes, down to gleaming white spats and up to his jaunty bowler. He solves murders using, as he insists, nothing but his little grey cells. Twenty-four movies have focused on Poirot's skills, including 10 starring David Suchet on the A&E Network and six starring Peter Ustinov. Other actors performing as Poirot include Albert Finney, Tony Randall, and Austin Trevor. For other Christie titles published by The Audio Partners, visit our Agatha Christie page. The most popular mystery writer of all time, the most widely published novelist of all time in any language, Agatha Christie (1890-1976) wrote 97 books including novels, plays, and short story collections. With over 2 billion copies of her books in print, her genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her play, The Mousetrap, has run continuously in London since 1952, breaking all records. She was made a Dame of the British Empire for her contributions to literature and culture. She was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1955, the first ever to be so designated. And at the September 2000 Bouchercon World Mystery Convention, she was named Best Mystery Writer of the 20th Century, selected over finalists Rex Stout, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond Chandler. David Suchet's numerous stage credits include Amadeus and many Shakespeare productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company. His films include A Tale of Two Cities and The Missionary. On television he is best known for his acclaimed performance as Poirot on PBS-TV's Mystery! That series is currently broadcast regularly on A&E. Suchet's reading of The Audio Partners' The Mysterious Affair at Styles won an Audie Award from the Audio Publishers Association for Best Mystery in 1997. "[Agatha Christie was] a towering figure in the history of crime literature."-- H.R.F. Keating in his article for the Dictionary of Literary Biography "As the genre's undisputed queen of the maze, Christie laid her tantalizing plots so precisely and dropped her false leads so cunningly that few - if any - readers could guess the identity of the villain."-- Time "Agatha Christie's claim to supremacy among the classical detective story writers of her time rests on her originality in constructing puzzles. This was her supreme skill.... Although the detective story is ephemeral literature, the puzzle which it embodies has a permanent appeal.... If her work survives it will be because she was the supreme mistress of a magical skill that is a permanent, although often secret, concern of humanity: the construction and the solution of puzzles."-- Julian Symons, in Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime "I strongly suspect that future scholars of the simon-pure detective novel will hold that its greatest practitioner ... has been Agatha Christie."-- Anthony Boucher, The New York Times (and himself considered the foremost mystery reviewer of the 20th century) "Dame Agatha's forte was supremely adroit plotting and sharp, believable characterizationà There was simply no outguessing Poirot àor Agatha Christie." -- Max Lowenthal, The New York Times, upon Christie's death in 1976