Crooked House
by:
Agatha Christie (author)
Rory Kinnear (narrator)
Anna Maxwell (narrator)
Phil Davis (narrator)
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,...
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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 Aristide's death was murder. The ensuing investigation drags Charles into the dark heart of the family, and its deadly secrets and dangers.
Even if Charles escapes with his life, will he survive the corrosive effect of the family itself?
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781408481882 (140848188X)
Publish date: 2010-09-10
Publisher: AudioGO
Minutes: 106
Edition language: English
I first read this for Halloween Bingo back in 2017. This is also the only Agatha Christie book in which I figured out who...okay, I guess I shouldn't say figured out. It was more like I thought, "Hey, I wonder if it could be 'so-and-so'?" I just had this nagging suspicion, but I couldn't quite say w...
"Crooked House" is the first Agatha Christie standalone novel I've read. I've been pleasantly surprised by how fresh and simple the humour in this book is. The writing feels relaxed and confident as if Agatha Christie is enjoying the people she's writing about rather than working to set up a plot. ...
I can see why this was one of Christie's own favorite novels; it is, in the end, as much about writing a mystery as it is about the mystery itself. It's also one of the few of her novels where I've had a suspicion about the murderer's identity before it was revealed (I'm normally easy to fool, ha...
"I was to wonder afterwards that I could've been so blind. The truth had stuck out so clearly all along..."
According to the introduction, this is Christie’s favorite novel she ever wrote. When an author says that, you know the book is either going to suck or blow your socks off. Luckily for me, this book did the latter. I think I might love it as much as And Then There Were None. It will be interesting t...
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