After the Funeral (The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection; Imitation Leather)

Name: After the Funeral (The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection; Imitation Leather)
Rating: 4.3 (51491 reviews)
Author: Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot • Book 30

by Agatha Christie

Narrated by Hugh Fraser

4.30 ABR Score (51.5K ratings)

★ 3.92 Goodreads (50.4K) ★ 4.69 Audible (1.1K)

6h 55m Released 2012 Mystery

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Why Listen to This Audiobook?

One offhand comment at a funeral — 'he was murdered, wasn't he?' — and Christie starts a clock that Poirot can barely outrun.

Great if you want: a tight family-drama whodunit with a reframing twist
Listening experience: brisk and cozy, then quietly unsettling as pieces align
Narration: Fraser played Hastings on TV — his Poirot-world intimacy is unmistakable
Skip if: you already know the ending — the twist is the whole experience

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About This Audiobook

After the Funeral brings Poirot into a family gathering where the patriarch's sudden death is followed almost immediately by his sister's casual remark that he was murdered, which she repeats as if it were obvious. When that sister is herself killed the following day, her strange observation becomes the key to a puzzle involving contested inheritances, family secrets, and a killer confident enough to act in plain sight.

Hugh Fraser's portrayal of Poirot has become the definitive audio reading for many listeners, his mannered precision capturing the Belgian detective's distinctive mixture of vanity and compassion. Christie's puzzle mechanics in this 1953 novel are as clean as anything she wrote, and Fraser navigates the family gathering with a performer's instinct for which character's suspicion should be foregrounded at each stage of the mystery.