Dumb Witness. The Agatha Christie Collection.

Name: Dumb Witness. The Agatha Christie Collection.
Rating: 4.37 (50793 reviews)
Author: Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot • Book 17

by Agatha Christie

Narrated by Hugh Fraser

4.37 ABR Score (50.8K ratings)

★ 3.92 Goodreads (49.4K) ★ 4.75 Audible (1.4K)

7h 19m Released 2012 Mystery

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Why Listen to This Audiobook?

Hugh Fraser — the man who played Hastings on screen — narrates Poirot solving a murder that was disguised as a dog's fault.

Great if you want: classic country-house mystery with a clever delayed-letter hook
Listening experience: cozy and methodical — Christie at her quieter, character-driven best
Narration: Fraser brings lived-in authenticity; he knows these characters from the inside
Skip if: you prefer Christie's tightly-plotted, twist-heavy entries over this gentler one

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About This Audiobook

An elderly spinster writes to Hercule Poirot with her suspicion that one of her relatives is trying to kill her, certain that her fall on the stairs was no accident. When Poirot finally receives the letter, Emily has already died, and the apparent manner of her death looks natural enough that only Poirot's instincts insist something is wrong. Christie's seventeenth Poirot novel uses the retrospective mystery structure, working backward from a death to reconstruct the truth that the household's silence and its members' plausible grief have concealed.

Hugh Fraser narrates with the precision and period warmth that Christie's Poirot novels demand, giving the Belgian detective's methodical intelligence its proper atmosphere even in the absence of the physical Poirot. His voice renders the English country house world with familiar authority, and the ticking logic of the solution is delivered with the timing that makes Christie's best reveals satisfying rather than obvious. At just over seven hours, Dumb Witness is a classic Christie in fine audio form.