The Third Girl

Name: The Third Girl
Rating: 4.1 (39451 reviews)
Author: Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot • Book 35

by Agatha Christie

Narrated by Hugh Fraser

4.10 ABR Score (39.5K ratings)

★ 3.69 Goodreads (38.7K) ★ 4.63 Audible (706)

6h 59m Released 2012 Mystery

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Why Listen to This Audiobook?

Hugh Fraser played Captain Hastings opposite David Suchet for 25 years — hearing him narrate Poirot is the closest thing to having Hastings tell you the story himself.

Great if you want: a swinging-60s London mystery with a psychological edge
Listening experience: compact and atmospheric, but slower to ignite than classic Christie
Narration: Fraser's intimacy with these characters makes every line feel earned
Skip if: you prefer Christie's tightest plots — this one meanders

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About This Audiobook

A young woman arrives at Hercule Poirot's door claiming she may have committed a murder but disappears before she can provide details. Poirot and his friend mystery writer Ariadne Oliver investigate separately, navigating London's world of shared flats, galleries, and art connections, trying to determine whether the third girl's fears are real, delusional, or part of something constructed to manipulate her. Agatha Christie's thirty-fifth Poirot novel uses the swinging London of the 1960s as an unsettling backdrop for one of the series' more psychologically complex mysteries.

Hugh Fraser's narration has been the definitive audio voice of Poirot since the early BBC recordings, and his performance here has the authority of long familiarity. His rendering of Poirot's deliberate, slightly theatrical intelligence is completely assured, and his management of the novel's ensemble of young Londoners gives the mid-century social world its proper texture. At just under seven hours, The Third Girl is a satisfying late-career Christie.