Publisher Description
Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot both make appearances in Agatha Christie’s Double Sin and Other Stories, a sterling collection of short mystery fiction that offers double the suspense, surprise, and fun.
In one of London’s most elegant shops, a decorative doll dressed in green velvet adopts some rather human, and rather sinister, traits.
A country gentleman is questioned about a murder yet to be committed.
While summoning spirits, a medium is drawn closer to the world of the dead than she ever dared imagine possible.
In a small country church, a dying man’s last word becomes both an elegy and a clue to a crime.
These chilling stories, and more, cleverly wrought by master Agatha Christie and solved by the inimitable Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple.
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“Time and again Agatha Christie pulled off what many obviously greater
writers labored for in vain, a work of art which is both perfectly
crafted and morally satisfying.”
—
A. N. Wilson, author, biographer, and newspaper columnist
About the Narrators
Isla Blair is an India-born actress of British descent. She made her first stage appearance in 1963 as Philia in the London debut of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and her first credited film appearance in the 1965 horror film Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors.
Joan Hickson (1906–1998) was an actress who appeared on stage in several plays and in over seventy films. She is best known for playing Miss Marple in the BBC television series, a role that was encouraged by Agatha Christie, who wrote, “ hope you will play my dear Miss Marple” after seeing Hickson in Christie’s Appointment with Death.
Anna
Massey (1937–2011), the daughter of Hollywood actor Raymond Massey, was born in
England and enjoyed an award-winning career on stage, in movies, and on television.
Her stage roles earned her the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award, the London
Critics’ Circle Theatre Award, and a nomination for a Tony Award for her only
Broadway appearance, in The Reluctant
Debutante. Her television awards include the UK’s BAFTA TV Award for Best
Actress and the RTS Television Award. Her best-known film roles were as Helen
in Peeping Tom, Babs in Alfred
Hitchcock’s Frenzy, and more recently
in The Oxford Murders and The Machinist. She received critical
praise from AudioFile magazine for
her narrations, especially of Cold
Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier, and Wild Swans
by Jung Chang.
David Suchet, famed as TV’s Hercule Poirot, has starred with the RSC, on London’s West End and on Broadway, winning four Olivier nominations and a Tony® nomination. He has starred in numerous films and is director of the Old Vic Theatre, and a member of the Trust Council of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
Christopher Lee (1922–2015) was an English actor, singer, and author. With a career spanning over sixty years he acted in many iconic film roles, including Saruman in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies and Count Dracula in a series of Hammer Horror films. He was knighted in 2009 for services to drama and charity.
Simon Vance (a.k.a. Robert Whitfield) is an award-winning actor and narrator. He has earned more than fifty Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration thirteen times. He was named Booklist’s very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and has been named an AudioFile Golden Voice as well as an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London. He is also an actor who has appeared on both stage and television.
James Langton, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and later as a musician at the Guildhall School in London. He has worked in radio, film, and television, also appearing in theater in England and on Broadway. He is also a professional musician who led the internationally renowned Pasadena Roof Orchestra from 1996 to 2002.