

I believe I might have enjoyed this collection more if Hugh Fraser had read all the stories. He gets the voice of Hercule Poirot just right for an audio book. The best of the narrators was Hugh Fraser. Her voice was excellent in the TV dramas, but is sibilant and hard to listen to in this collection. I own DVD's of all the Joan Hickson "Miss Marple" programs and have watched them multiple times. I loved Joan Hickson as Miss Marple in the TV dramas produced by the BBC. I did not find these short stories as satisfying as the novels I have read. I suspect they were written before the novels. I'm not sure when this collection of short stories were written. Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot are my favorites. Many of Agantha Christie's novels are timeless for me.
