Towards Zero - Agatha Christie -Agatha Christie |
Read by Hugh Fraser
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Unabridged 5 CDs "Agatha Christie has surpassed herself."-The New York Times
"Fraser lends his beautifully modulated voice to the reading of one of Christie's best mysteries. Fraser's reading is pitch-perfect; he has a great sense of pacing, and his changes of rhythm and tone bring the characters to life and keep listeners poised on the edge of discovery. Christie fans will not be disappointed."-Booklist
Most murder stories have it all wrong, as they start with the murder itself. The story truly begins long before, with actions that seem insignificant and unrelated at the time, but all lead toward the zero point-murder. A dashing tennis player named Neville Strange, his current stylish wife, his not-so-stylish ex-wife, plus a distant relative and a few others find their way to a house party. When a murder occurs, Superintendent Battle is nearby and called on to help solve the case. But is the information on hand enough to go by, or do the events leading to the murder begin years in the past?
Hugh Fraser is known to millions as "Captain Hastings" assisting Poirot in A&E's Poirot and in the PBS-TV Mystery! series. He also reads Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None , Dead Man's Mirror, Thirteen At Dinner and The Big Four for The Audio Partners.
About the Author Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote romance novels under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Her works, particularly featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple, have given her the title the 'Queen of Crime' and made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre.
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay, in the county of Devon, as the daughter of Frederick Alvah Miller, an American with a moderate private income, and Clarissa Miller. Her father died when she was a child. Agatha Christie was educated home, where her mother encouraged her to write from very early age. At sixteen she was sent to school in Paris where she studied singing and piano.
Christie has been called — by the Guinness Book of World Records, among others — the best-selling writer of books of all time and the best-selling writer of any kind, along with William Shakespeare. Only the Bible is known to have outsold her collected sales of roughly four billion copies of novels. UNESCO states that she is currently the most translated individual author in the world with only the collective corporate works of Walt Disney Productions superseding her.. As an example of her broad appeal, she is the all-time best-selling author in France, with over 40 million copies sold in French (as of 2003) versus 22 million for Emile Zola, the nearest contender.
Her stage play, The Mousetrap, holds the record for the longest initial run in the world, opening at the Ambassadors Theatre in London on 25 November 1952, and as of 2008 is still running after more than 20,000 performances. In 1955, Christie was the first recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's highest honor, the Grand Master Award, and in the same year, Witness for the Prosecution was given an Edgar Award by the MWA, for Best Play. Most of her books and short stories have been filmed, some many times over (Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, 4.50 From Paddington), and many have been adapted for television, radio, video games and comics.
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