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The Thirteen Problems
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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Summary
Juliet Stevenson reads Agatha Christie’s The Thirteen Problems, the series of linked short stories that introduced readers to the Tuesday Night Club and to the woman who would become the world’s most popular female detective, Miss Jane Marple.
A weekly dinner party Ten amateur sleuths The Tuesday Night Club murdersOn a quiet Tuesday in St Mary Mead, a group of friends gather for dinner.
A policeman, a clergyman, a solicitor, an author, an artist, and an unassuming lady with a shrewd gaze – Miss Jane Marple. Conversation naturally turns to crime.
Each recounts a seemingly unsolvable mystery. Each thinks they know the answer.
But it’s the one they least expect who understands the true nature of each wicked act…
Never underestimate Miss Marple
‘Billions of readers can’t be wrong.’
Dreda Say Mitchell
‘The plots are so good that one marvels . . . most of them would have made a full-length thriller.’
Daily Mirror
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Critic reviews
‘Without a doubt, the greatest mystery writer of all time’ – Ragnar Jonasson
‘A hundred years after her first novel, and we are all still standing in her shadow’ – Andrew Taylor
‘She gives us an insight into human nature that few, if any, have surpassed’ – Susan Lewis
‘Dame Agatha has sold more books than all besides Shakespeare and the Bible’ – David Baldacci
‘All crime fiction writers around the globe owe Agatha Christie a massive debt’ – Peter James
‘Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: that pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction.’ – Tana French
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- Lee
- 28-04-23
A fine collection
A fine collection to dip in and out of. I listened while dog walking as the stories are not to taxing on old my old brain.
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- Cindy
- 25-02-24
Brilliant
This book is well worth a credit. An Agatha Christie masterpiece. Miss Marple solves very different mysteries in all in novel.
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- Book Monitor
- 04-06-23
Some stories are better than others
This is a collection of short stories many of which have been adapted for TV and are familiar in one way or another. The Tuesday night club tells each other stories of crime, to stretch their problem solving skills and Miss Marple is the one who uses her insights from village life to get the answer every time.
Being short tales some feel a bit trite but overall this is a good collection which are well written and well narrated.
Enjoyable listening.
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- John
- 17-04-23
Enjoyable Murder
Fans of the genre looking for stories neatly wrapped up in less than an hour will be well satisfied. Narration was good, appropriate for the setting and characters. The Problems themselves were varied enough to merit being listened to back-to-back, should the listener find themselves unable to reach the pause button.
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- markfromlodz
- 19-11-22
Very, very disappointing
I did not like one of these stories. In fact, one of them was over and I had no idea what the story was even about. I kept zoning out. And that's a problem for many of these stories. There's nothing to keep your interest.
There's a preface from Christie where she says that she thinks this short story format works better for Marple. I disagree. The stories are so slight, the "clues" so oblique, that there's just nothing to enjoy. At the end of some of the stories, you'll be left thinking, "Oh come ON! Really?!"
This is not Christie's finest work.
Juliet Stephenson does a good job of bringing it all to life, but even she can't save this.
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