The three act Tragedy by Agatha Christie’s starring John Moffat as Poirot
Dramatized by BBC with a whole cast playing different members of the cast so in affect this is not a pure audiobook but an audio play which helps since this is a murder mystery.
Listening length around 2 hours but it seems much less since the Audiobook is a part of a bigger collection of selected stories by Agatha Christie and all these stories feel like short stories which they are actually not!
In fact if you get to read this audio book in isolation then it is close to three hours or more!
Of course the book can be told as a summary in much less!
The fact of the matter remains in that this is a typical Poirot Mystery of murder and he of course takes in charge of his little grey cells to solve the crime!
There is a whole team to help him in this one but no Hastings and that’s a sour pickle!
Now the first act is a sudden death of a clergyman who just drops dead after a drink and then no one bats an eyelid since he was old. But then a second act of tragedy happens when a similar group of people meet and another person dies in a similar fashion!
Naturally the eye of suspicion falls on those who were present in both the parties and those who were missing (or supposedly missing!) were exempt from the suspicion of the three investigators who set out to solve the mystery!
In between you have an innocent love story or is it?
In Between you have some Butler missing and gone into the wind or is it something more!?
Of the two murder who was the intended target and more importantly who did it!?
If you have not read this one before I can personally guarantee you that even if you know this person in the whole novel, even for a minute you can never guess who is the killer! And even by a rare stroke of luck you did then you could never guess the motive!
The best line of the novel is the last one which also does not give any spoiler!
A modified non spoiler version is this, “In the aftermath, one witness remarks how terrible it was that anyone, himself included, could have drunk the poisoned cocktail to which Poirot remarks there was an even more terrible possibility: “It might have been me.”!!
With Wit and suspense this one will keep you guessing and wanting for more!
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