Agatha Christie: Mrs McGinty's Dead Audiobook on Audio CD, Audio Download, buy now from AudioGO

The gruesome death of Mrs McGinty provokes Superintendent Spence to seek the help of his old ally Hercule Poirot. The victim's young lodger has been found guilty and is due to hang.But Spence is not convinced by the circumstantial evidence which influenced the verdict. So, at considerable personal discomfort, Poirot goes down to the sleepy village where the old lady lived and where, by chance, his good friend Ariadne Oliver is also staying.There he alights upon his first and most crucial clue - a newspaper article on the present whereabouts of women implicated in notorious murder cases. Did Mrs McGinty have to die because she had identified one of her neighbours as a brutal killer? Is that killer still at large, and can Poirot and Ariadne act swiftly enough to save an innocent man from the gallows?Agatha Christie's intriguing mystery is dramatised with a full cast including Julia McKenzie and George Baker. John Moffatt stars as Hercule Poirot.

Agatha Christie is famous for one thing above all: the literary creation of Hercule Poirot, an ex Belgian police inspector who took to being a successful private detective in England after becoming a refugee during World War I. Christie would bring Poirot to life in 33 stories, a life that has been repeated in dramatisations on the stage, television and radio as well as the more recent audiobooks on CD and MP3.

One of Poirot’s many fictional acquaintances was the flamboyant crime novelist, Ariadne Oliver, who works with him on the case of Mrs McGinty’s death in terrain that is more familiar to that other famous Christie sleuth, Miss Jane Marple, namely a quintessentially English village. Initially, the unhappy Poirot takes little interest in the murder, assuming it to be a cut and dried case, but is eventually persuaded to use his little grey cells to prevent a miscarriage of justice. Working more closely with Mrs Oliver as he does in the later novels, the story moves towards its climax.

This intriguing and entertaining mystery is dramatised by BBC Radio 4 as a CD and MP3 audiobook, and has a strong cast with John Moffatt as Poirot supported by George Baker and Julia Mackenzie, along with others.

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Author: Agatha Christie Running Time: 2hrs 20min Publisher: AudioGO Ltd Number of CDs: 0 File Quality: MP3 (256 kbps) Release Date: 03/04/2006 D/L ISBN: 9781408482018 CD ISBN: 9780563510215

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