Performance audiobooks

One, Two Buckle My Shoe

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, John Moffatt & Philip Jackson

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Poirot has always hated visiting the dentist, but this time his check-up is painless and soon over. As he leaves Mr Morley's surgery, he observes a woman wearing patent leather shoes with large buckles. She catches one of the buckles on the taxi door and wrenches it off, and as Poirot hands it back, he is reminded of the children's rhyme 'One,... Read more

Nemesis

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Swift, Full Cast, Jill Balcon & June Whit...

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Marple, living a quiet life in St Mary Mead, is saddened to hear of the death of Jason Rafiel. Not that they were friends - the old financier was much too irascible and self-centred for friendship - but they had once been allies in solving a series of murders that took place on the tiny Caribbean island of St Honoré. She is therefore... Read more

Murder In Mesopotamia

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & John Moffatt

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Just as Amy Leatheran is about to return to England, she is hired by celebrated archaeologist Dr Leidner to work as a nurse/companion for his wife, who is subject to fits of nervous terrors. As they travel to an ancient site in the Iraqi desert, Amy finds herself in a situation stranger than she could ever have imagined, whilst Mrs Leidner... Read more

Murder At The Vicarage

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, Imelda Staunton, June Whitfield & Ni...

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

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 -... Read more

Murder On The Links

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, Jeremy Clyde & John Moffatt

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

When Poirot arrives in France, following an urgent appeal for help, he finds he is too late. His client, a South American millionaire, has been stabbed to death and his body flung into a freshly dug open grave on the golf course adjoining the property. Meanwhile the millionaire's wife is found bound and gagged in her room. Her wrists are badly... Read more

The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & John Moffatt

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story that made Agatha Christie famous, and which was also one of her own favourites. It begins when the wealthy Mrs Farrars is found dead of an apparent overdose, one year after the death of her husband. The villagers of King's Abbot are suspicious, for local rumour has it that she poisoned her husband and was in love with Roger... Read more

Mrs McGinty's Dead

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & John Moffatt

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

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... Read more

Lord Edgware Dies

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & John Moffatt

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

'Monsieur Poirot, somehow or other I've just got to get rid of my husband!' No sooner had she uttered the words than Lady Edgware's husband was dead, brutally stabbed in the neck. The evidence against her is overwhelming, the case cut and dried. But what is the truth behind it all? What enemies lurked in the background of the victim's life?... Read more

Hallowe'en Party

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, John Moffatt & Stephanie Cole

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Famous crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, visiting her friend Judith Butler in the little town of Woodleigh Common, is invited to a Hallowe'en Party put on by society hostess Mrs Rowena Drake for the local teenagers. During her preparations for the party, the conversation turns to Ariadne's grisly novels. One of the teenagers, Joyce Reynolds,... Read more

Death On The Nile

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & John Moffatt

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Linnet Ridgeway has led a charmed life. Blessed with beauty, enormous wealth and a devoted husband, she has everything anyone could wish for. But as the happy couple set out on an idyllic honeymoon cruise on the Nile, storm clouds are gathering... Linnet's former friend, Jacqueline de Bellefort, follows her and Simon wherever they go and... Read more

Death In The Clouds

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, John Moffatt & Philip Jackson

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

To distract himself from his fear of flying, Hercule Poirot observes his fellow passengers on the noon flight from Le Bourget to Croydon. On his right sits a pretty young woman, clearly very aware of the handsome man opposite her; ahead of him is a nervous aristocrat and her maid; and across the aisle is a writer of detective novels, troubled by... Read more

Cards On The Table

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Donald Sinden, Full Cast, John Moffatt & Stepha...

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot, along with three other luminaries from the world of crime detection, is invited to dinner by the renowned London socialite Dr Shaitana. Also on the guest list are four members of what Shaitana calls his Black Museum - a collection of murderers who have each succeeded in 'getting away with it'. An elegant dinner is followed by a... Read more

The Body In Library

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, Jack Watling, June Whitfield & Pauli...

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Dolly Bantry, mistress of Gossington Hall, is enjoying a pleasant doze when suddenly her dreams take a strange turn. The housemaid Mary is telling her that there is a body in the library... When she wakes up, she finds that it is true. But who is the strange young blonde dressed in an evening gown who is lying strangled on the library hearth... Read more

At Bertram's Hotel

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, June Whitfield, Maurice Denham & Siâ...

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Marple is being treated to a few days' holiday by her niece, staying at Bertram's Hotel - a dignified, establishment tucked away in a back street of busy Mayfair. It is a place where sedate upper-class ladies, retired military gentlemen and the higher echelons of the clergy can indulge in the comforts of a bygone age. But Miss Marple... Read more

Appointment With Death

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & John Moffatt

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

'You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed? It's the only solution.' Even when on holiday in Jerusalem - the so-called City of Peace - Hercule Poirot can't seem to escape the strains of death and murder. His first evening at the King Solomon Hotel finds the above phrase floating into his room from outside. What does it mean? Who is... Read more

The ABC Murders

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, John Moffatt, Philip Jackson & Simon...

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Alice Ascher, a poor, elderly shopkeeper, is murdered in Andover. Betty Barnard, a young waitress, is strangled with her own belt at Bexhill-on-Sea. Next comes Carmichael Clarke, collector of Chinese art, clubbed to death in Churston. Only in Doncaster does the pattern vary: the man found stabbed in the Regal Cinema is called George Earsfield. ... Read more

4.50 From Paddington

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, Ian Lavender, Joan Sims & June Whitf...

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Elspeth McGillicuddy is down from Scotland for a holiday and boards the 4:50 train from Paddington station to visit her friend, Miss Marple. During the journey, another train pulls alongside, and through the window Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a tall, dark man strangling a blonde woman. She reports what she has seen, yet no one takes any notice.... Read more

Towards Zero

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, Hugh Bonneville, Marcia Warren & Phi...

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Tresselian invites several guests to stay at her seaside house at Gull’s Point. Against her better judgment she has allowed her late husband’s ward, handsome tennis ace Neville Strange, and his wife Kay to come at the same time as Neville’s ex-wife Audrey. Other guests include Mary, Lady Tresselian’s companion; Ted, Kay’s ever-present... Read more

Crooked House

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Anna Maxwell Martin, Full Cast & Rory Kinnear

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

With World War II at an end, Charles Hayward is finally free to marry the woman he loves, Sophia Leonides. However, she refuses - the unexplained death of her grandfather, wealthy businessman Aristide Leonides, draws her back to the suffocating environment of her family home. Charles follows, but his arrival coincides with the discovery that... Read more

Peril At End House

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & John Moffatt

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot and his good friend Captain Hastings are enjoying a well-deserved break on the Cornish Riviera. Wandering along the terrace of the Hotel Majestic on the first morning of their stay, Poirot literally falls at the feet of a pretty, dark-haired girl and, much to Hastings' delight, insists that she join them for a cocktail. The girl... Read more

Taken At The Flood

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast & John Moffatt

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1940s London, Hercule Poirot is cornered by the club bore and learns of a mysterious death - one which sets him off on one of his most intriguing cases. When Gordon Cloade is killed in a London air raid his vast fortune passes to his young wife Rosaleen. Cloade's relatives are desperate to get their hands on his money, and Rosaleen begins... Read more

The Adventure Of Christmas Pudding

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Donald Sinden, Full Cast, John Moffatt & Siân P...

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In this delightful tale, an Eastern Prince arrives in England with some family jewels which he's having reset as a gift for his fianceé. However, the Prince also has a mistress. She asks to wear one particularly enchanting piece that features a huge ruby, and then promptly disappears with it. Poirot discovers a connection with a house party at... Read more

The Witness For Prosecution

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Full Cast, Hywell Bennett, Miriam Margolyes & S...

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a major new London theatre show, The Witness for the Prosecution follows the hapless Leonard Vole as he learns he has been accused of murdering a wealthy widow in order to get his hands on the inheritance. His predicament is made even worse when he discovers his wife to be the chief witness against him.The trial proceeds with a number... Read more

The Battle Of Britain

By: BBC

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

First-hand accounts featuring the RAF pilots who took part in the Battle of Britain - one of the chief turning points of World War Two. 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few' - Winston Churchill. The 'Few' were the nearly 3,000 RAF pilots who fought against the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, which... Read more