Agatha Christie: Murder at the Vicarage Audiobook on Audio CD, Audio Download, buy now from AudioGO

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple, the sharp-witted spinster sleuth. In the sleepy little English country village of St Mary Mead, all is not as it seems. Under a seemingly peaceful exterior lurks intrigue, guilt, deception - and murder. Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing landowner, is the most detested man in the village. Everyone, even the vicar, wishes he were dead. And very soon he is - shot in the head in the vicar's own study. A visiting artist confesses to the murder, but residents saw him elsewhere at the time the Colonel was shot. If he didn't do it, who did? Is he protecting the wife whom he loves? Faced with a surfeit of suspects, only the inscrutable Miss Marple can unravel the tangled web of clues. A trap set, and Miss Marple's theory is put to the test when the true killer is finally unmasked.

Agatha Christie was one of the most prodigious authors of any century and without question is was and is the Queen of Crime. Hercule Poirot remained her most popular figure but the elderly spinster Jane Marple is in many ways more remarkable as she lacked Poirot’s training as a detective and operated in the confined world of villages. Added to this, she was a woman at a time when sexual equality was just beginning with the female vote.

This Marple story was published in 1930 and was the first novel to feature her as a main character, although she had previously emerged in some short stories. The plot centres on the murder of Colonel Protheroe at the vicarage in St Mary Mead and because he was widely and intensely disliked, even by the vicar, there is a long list of suspects. Jane Marple gets involved in her inimitable way because two people confessed to the same crime.

This popular story was first dramatised by the BBC in 1986 with Joan Hickson capturing the Marple role with great success, while Paul Eddington played the vicar and Polly Adams was Anne Protheroe. This equally enjoyable MP3 audiobook that is also available as a CD audiobook, stars the very accomplished June Whitfield as our amateur sleuth.

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Author: Agatha Christie Running Time: 2hrs 20min Publisher: AudioGO Ltd Number of CDs: 2 File Quality: MP3 (256 kbps) Release Date: 07/07/2003 D/L ISBN: 9781408482049 CD ISBN: 9780563494225

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