Agatha Christie: Sad Cypress Audiobook on Audio CD, Audio Download, buy now from AudioGO

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot, the great Belgian detective. Elinor Carlisle and Roddy Welman are the model English couple, perfect companions set for a life of ease when they inherit Aunt Laura's considerable fortune. But a poison pen letter begins a chain of events which is to end in tragedy.Convinced that Mary Gerrard, a childhood playmate of Elinor's, is attempting to ingratiate herself with her aunt for financial gain, the pair travel to the family home to investigate. They find no evidence but Roddy falls desperately in love with the beautiful Mary, little realising that beneath Elinor's restrained and unemotional exterior lies an almost obsessive passion for him.Elinor obeys her aunt's deathbed wish despite her heartbreak, and gives Mary a large bequest from the estate. But when Mary is found poisoned, the evidence against Elinor is damning. It's up to Hercule Poirot to find out if the case is as simple as it seems...

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Thoroughly enjoyable recording

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Review By Charmayne - I first listened to this recording on BBC Radio 4 Extra. I thoroughly enjoyed it, so decided to purchase the download to enjoy at leisure, but actually listened all in one day! Agatha Christie fans will not be disappointed with this production. A great timeless story, with money at the heart of the tale, a true Christie classic. (Posted on 30 May 2013)
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Hercule on top form

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Review By Lizzie - The BBC radio adaptations of Christie's Hercule Poirot are excellent . The essentials of the book are not lost, period is well drawn as are the characterisations by the cast. The only down side for me was the musical accompaniment .
On the whole very enjoyable. (Posted on 6 September 2012)
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The Sad Cypress written by bestselling British author Agatha Christie is the first book in the Poirot series that is set as a courtroom drama. This detective fictional tale was originally published in 1940 and its title derives from a song in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, which can be seen as an epigraph to the story. Christie’s love of a murderous plotline saw her pen a total of 33 stories that feature the quirky Belgian detective Hercule Poirot as everyone’s favourite crime-solver.

In this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Sad Cypress we are introduced to Roddy Welman and Elinor Carlisle, who initially appear to be the archetypal English couple. They are in love but of course this is an Agatha Christie story, so you can guarantee that their happiness will be short lived. The death of Elinor’s Aunt Laura sees the couple travel to Elinor’s family home in a bid to thwart a childhood friend’s plans to steal her family’s fortune. However, Roddy has a wandering eye and soon falls in love with the beautifully captivating Mary, the lady who is suspiciously interested in Aunt Laura’s money.

Can Hercule Poirot solve the mystery of a death by poison or is the cold-blooded murderer as painfully obvious as everyone suspects? This CD audiobook, also available as an MP3 download, is the ideal addition to any Christie collection and is the perfect accompaniment to a wet afternoon or a long car journey.

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Author: Agatha Christie Running Time: 2hrs 15min Publisher: AudioGO Ltd Number of CDs: 0 File Quality: MP3 (256 kbps) Release Date: 19/07/2004 D/L ISBN: 9781408484852 CD ISBN: 9780563524441

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