Dead Man’s Folly audiobook

Dead Man's Folly (Hercule Poirot #33), Agatha ChristieWith Mrs Oliver, Poirot discovers Marlene dead in the boathouse. Hattie cannot be found. Mrs Oliver produces an abundance of theories to explain the murder and the disappearance, while the police and Poirot narrow the field from all attending the fete, to those familiar with the Murder Hunt. The investigation focuses first on Etienne de Sousa and briefly on Amanda Brewis. Further confusion is added by the behaviour of the Legges, staying in a cottage on the estate and whose marriage is in trouble. After weeks of no progress, Poirot visits Devon again, learning that Hattie is still missing. Merdell, the old boatman, who drowned, was Marlene's grandfather. Poirot puts together several stray clues: Marlene's grandfather had seen a woman's body in the woods; Marlene received small sums of money used to make small purchases, now in her younger sister's possession. Merdell had told Poirot mischievously that there would "always be Folliats at Nasse House". ...عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «س‍ای‍ه‌ب‍ان‌ (سایبان) م‍رد ق‍ات‍ل‌»؛ «شکار قاتل»؛ «حماقت مرد مرده»؛ نویسنده‌: آگ‍ات‍ا ک‍ری‍س‍ت‍ی‌‏‫؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش: سال1994میلادیعنوان: س‍ای‍ه‌ب‍ان‌ (سایبان) م‍رد ق‍ات‍ل‌؛ نویسنده‌: آگ‍ات‍ا ک‍ری‍س‍ت‍ی‌‏‫؛ مت‍رج‍م: م‍ح‍م‍د ق‍ص‍اع‌؛ تهران، آبنوس؛ سال1373؛ در256ص؛ چاپ سوم سال1375؛ چاپ دیگر ت‍ه‍ران ص‍ب‍ورا‏‫، سال1377؛ در256ص؛ شابک9649175717؛ چاپ بعدی سال1380؛ موضوع داستانهای کارآگاهی از نویسندگان بریتانیا - سده ی20معنوان: شکار قاتل؛ نویسنده: آگاتا کریستی؛ مترجم: حمیدرضا بلندسران؛ مشخصات نشر تهران هرمس، کتابهای کارآگاه‏‫‏، سال1391؛ در258ص؛ شابک9789643637514؛ چاپ دوم سال1392؛ در258ص؛ چاپ سوم سال1395؛ چاپ چهارم سال1396؛‬حماقت مرد مرده (سایبان مرد قاتل) رمانی جنایی، اثر خانم «آگاتا کریستی» است؛ انتشارات «هرمس» نیز این کتاب را با عنوان «شکار قاتل» چاپ کرده‌ است؛ از سری داستان‌های «پوآرو» است، که نخستین بار در ماه اکتبر سال1953میلادی در «آمریکا»، توسط انتشارات «داد، مید اند کمپانی»، و در روز پنجم ماه نوامبر همان سال، توسط انتشارات «کولینز کرایم کلوب» در «بریتانیا» به چاپ رسیده‌ استبرگردان عنوان اصلی این کتاب «حماقت مرد مرده» است؛ خانم «اولیور» «هرکول پوآرو» را برای دادن جایزه ی شکار قاتل، به ملکی که صاحبش «سر جرج استایز» است، با فرستادن تلگرافی دعوت می‌کند، به نظر او چیزی درست نیست، و رفتار مهمانان مسابقه مشکوک است، و انگار قرار است، قتلی رخ بدهد، بنابراین از دوستش «هرکول پوارو» دعوت می‌کند، تا بررسی کند؛ «پوآرو» به سرعت با قطار سریع‌ السیر، به آنجا می‌رود، و متوجه رفتار مشکوک مهمانان می‌شود، و پس از چندی در مسابقه ی شکار قاتل، جسد دختری که قرار بود نقش مقتول را بازی کند، پیدا می‌شود؛ او به قتل رسیده‌ است، و «هرکول پوآرو» پرده از راز آن قتل برمیداردتاریخ بهنگام رسانی 08/04/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 05/02/1401هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

There's something to be said about red herrings and clues. When an author of the crime genre renders it impossible to distinguish between the two, it means that the book one is reading is worth praise.Praise Dame Christie with great praise. Indeed, the queen of crime is also the first cozy mystery writer. This is a claim I make without delving into the history of cozies but I found this fact often online.Hercule Poirot nabs the criminal. But how wonderful it was that the criminal is not on scene being undone by the Belgian detective. When Christie wants to write, she can write. The brilliantly unraveled case, without the murderer present. Some times events like this misfire, but not here.

Ariadne Oliver has a bad feeling about the murder she's planning.Of course, Mrs. Oliver is only killing for charity. As a famous mystery writer, she's been asked to plan a fake murder and organize the hunt for clues. But there's just something indefinably wrong with the situation. And when she thinks about it for a second?Hey! I know a guy...In typical Mrs. Oliver fashion, she informs Poirot that he needs to immediately pack his bags and head her way whether he wants to or not.And in typical Poirot fashion, his curiosity gets the better of him and he shows up in time to meet everyone involved before all the murdering starts. Ok, so as much as I love good old Hastings, Ariadne Oliver is my absolute favorite Poirot sidekick. I think it's because it's almost like a funny version of Agatha Christie interacting with her own character on the page.The mystery is pretty decent, too. Disguises, secret histories, blackmail, and scary foreigners!Good stuff.In case you were wondering:Dead Man's Folly was an expanded version of Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly, which was published posthumously as a short. There are differences between the two stories, but the reason Christie originally abandoned Greenshore Folly was that it was too long to be in a magazine. So?

Agatha Christie Book Reading ChallengeBOOK 28 :- MAR 20214.25 STARS

Dead Man's Folly is a great Hercule Poirot story & as I've read the book & seen the TV adaptation I thought I'd give this audio version a listen.Narrator David Suchet obviously brings Poirot to life with ease, but he also provides a wealth of accents for all the other characters as well. Occasionally an accent will be a little over the top, but then so is the novel I suppose. A great story & another new way to enjoy it once again. And here's my previous review from earlier this year....When a book opens with famous crime novelist Ariadne Oliver inviting detective Hercule Poirot to judge a Murder Hunt at a Devon fete you know you're in for a fun read. Dead Man's Folly is an expanded version of Agatha Christie's short story Hercule Poirot & the Greenshore Folly, but it's just as fast paced as the original.The thing I love most about this novel is the setting of Nasse House, which is based on Christie's holiday home of Greenway near Dartmouth. Greenway, now owned by the National Trust, is a place I've visited many times & it's wonderful having Poirot solve a murder in a setting so familiar to me. I've wanted to read this novel for a while, but have waited until now because this month my family & I will be spending a week on holiday at Greenway House. Let's just hope that we don't find a dead body in the old boat house!

This one has a perfect setting for a murder mystery : Starts with a "Murder Hunt" (A treasure hunt with a twist) and things start going wrong. The murder seems without a motive at all & the victim has no known enemies And the mystery keeps deepening. Looking back,the finer clues were very carefully placed right before you, like missing pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. The characters, the setting & the story all are great. The only complain is that Poirot's part in entire investigation is very limited. Overall not Poirot's greatest case but the mystery part keeps you hooked & the ending is satisfying. 3.5/5

In this, the thirty-third Poirot mystery, Poirot receives a request for help from mystery-writer Ariadne Oliver. Mrs Oliver has been down at Nasse House, Nassecombe, Devon, where a village fête is to be held and one attraction is a ‘murder hunt’ on the lines of a treasure hunt which she is in charge of organising. (Poirot is to be present in the guise of giving out the prizes.) While the plans are going along well, Mrs Oliver is certain that she senses something wrong, perhaps that someone has been getting her to alter things ever so slightly, a small detail here and there, though she can’t point her finger to who or what, and what exactly might go wrong. Nasse House is owned by Sir George Stubbs whose wife Hattie (Lady Stubbs), originally from the West Indies, is simple minded. His efficient secretary Miss Brewis, Mrs Folliat whose family originally owned the house, and other residents at the village are all enthusiastically organising and contributing to the fête—Sally Legge (who is staying for a few months at the village with her husband Alec) for instance is to tell people’s futures as Madame Zuleika. Meanwhile, it seems that a cousin of Hattie Stubbs, Etienne De Sousa, whom she hasn’t seen for years (since she was a child, in fact) wants to look her up, and will arrive on the day of the fête. On the day of the fête, Mrs Oliver’s fears prove real and the young schoolgirl who was to play the ‘body’ in the murder hunt is found actually murdered while Hattie Stubbs has vanished entirely with no clue to where she could be and no body found. Where could she have gotten to? Had she been killed? And what reason would anyone have for killing Marlene Tucker, a harmless schoolgirl? This is a puzzle that baffles not only the police who are glad of Poirot’s presence on the scene but also Poirot who can’t solve the case quite as fast (or easily) as he usually does.This was once again an enjoyable mystery from Christie, who (as another reviewer on Goodreads has also said) certainly has the best puzzles. She doesn’t leave us without clues—in fact here too, if one pays attention to even casual conversations Poirot has with various persons present, one might actually catch on to what was really going on (though one almost always never does, and some observations might be interpreted more than one way). This time since I was rereading, I did pick up some at least of these, a hint here, a clue there—and this was fun though I would say that may be compared to some other mysteries of hers, the clues/hints in this one weren’t perhaps as clear; yet everything and everyone, even if they seemed to be just a background or unconnected feature had a purpose.Compared to his usual adventures, Poirot perhaps also took a touch longer to solve this one having to go back ‘defeated’ for a bit before he returns for another visit and set of conversations and can finally solve the case. Nonetheless, it is him and his grey cells alone that can put things together eventually, not only solving the mystery but also locating the evidence.Mrs Oliver does not spare him over the time he takes, telling him when he calls her nearly a month after the events that it was about time he did see things. She is here in all her glory, with her rather fantastical hairstyles, and jumble of thoughts (from which she does manage to produce fairly complicated plots, and an equally complicated murder game) adding a bit of fun to the gravity of the murder and the other more serious storylines. In this one, she doesn’t have her usual struggles with her Finnish detective (reflecting Christie herself), but her one of her reader’s misconceptions about her add a few further comic moments as well.As with Christie’s other books, this one too has other storylines moving alongside the mystery thread—some turn out connected while others simply throw one off course. But all the characters we are introduced to are also well developed—each with their individual personality and story. An enjoyable revisit, and one where from cover onwards, everything gives you a clue!

This mystery begins with a phone call to Poirot from Christie alter ego Araidne Oliver (who's appeared in some earlier Poirot novels), summoning him from London to Nasse House, the great estate that dominates the village of Nassecombe in Devonshire (part of southwestern England). It's soon to be the venue for an annual local fete, a kind of community fundraiser, common in rural England, which features contests, raffles, refreshments, fortune telling, etc. An added attraction at this particular one is to be a Murder Hunt, a mock murder in which contestants will have to engage in a kind of scavenger hunt for prearranged "clues" and guess the identity of the "killer." Our famous mystery writer has been engaged to construct the scenario and "clues" for this game. Ostensibly, she's asked Poirot there to present the prize to the winner. In reality, she's picked up vibes which suggest to her "woman's intuition" that something undefined but ominous is seriously amiss at Nasse House, and she wants to enlist Poirot's help in uncovering it. That's not much to go on, but he takes her seriously --and events soon demonstrate that he was right to do so.IMO, Christies' literary style is pretty consistent across the span of the Poirot novels (at least, those I've read), as is her portrayal of her main character, and the series' continuing supporting characters. (Captain Hastings is absent here, though, and we're told that Poirot hasn't seen him for many years.) The great detective's ever-efficient secretary, Miss Lemon, is something of a cipher and a caricature --she's humanized considerably in the Mystery! adaptations-- but in general, Christie's characters are very vital and realistic, and that's true of the diverse cast at Nasse House. She constructs the mystery tightly and effectively, with clues masterfully hidden in plain sight. I was able to predict the basic premise of the solution (although one key detail totally eluded me), and that wasn't because I'd read the book as a preteen kid; my memories of that read were only vestigial. Rather, it was only because I'd seen part of the denouement of the 1986 movie adaptation starring Peter Ustinov (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090914/ ). If I hadn't, I'm not sure I'd have been able to divine as much as I did.Although Christie is not among those writers who pay much attention to social issues in their work, this book (published in 1956) does have its share of passing comments that reflect on the socio-economic and cultural changes taking place in England following World War II. (And comments of this sort are more marked here than in Mrs. McGinty's Dead, the earlier postwar Poirot novel I read this summer, though they're there too.) These include a steep rise in the cost of living due to inflation (meaning that it costs much more than formerly to pay a living wage); the spread of electricity and electrical appliances, and the growing perception of these as necessities; and the massive increases in the inheritance taxes on large amounts of landed property owned by individuals. There's a very definite feel that the milieu of the interwar world, in which Poirot got his literary start, is surviving on borrowed time, and that landed gentry (like those who built the first Nasse House in 1598) are an endangered species. That gives the novel a certain bittersweet quality, even for readers like myself who support social equality and distrust inherited privilege.

Ah, yes – another good one that got me hopping mad at the denouement, wanting to kick the author but knowing I only had myself to blame.Published in 1956 and set in the grounds of an English country house – in Devonshire, upon the wooded banks of a tidal river – Dead Man’s Folly features wealthy landowner Sir George Stubbs. He and his entourage arrange a garden fete, open to the public. Batty celebrity author Ariadne Oliver (surely Dame Christie’s alter ego) is enlisted to create a ‘murder mystery’ event. But she smells a rat (she thinks). In turn she implores Poirot to appear, under the guise that he will officiate at the prize giving.Ms Oliver’s sixth sense proves correct – and the local girl guide who plays the role of murder victim is strangled – but Poirot is aghast – he has failed to prevent the crime. Worse is yet to come, with the simultaneous disappearance of the beautiful young Lady Stubbs – shortly after the arrival by luxury yacht of a rather disreputable long-lost cousin, Etienne de Sousa.Poirot retreats to London with his tail between his legs. But – as ever – his little grey cells keep working – and in time he begins to pick up the threads of the case.There is one whopping-great clue in this book – and I really ought to have homed in upon the fact that it received a couple of subtle mentions. There were a fair share of flapping red herrings, and also – I felt – a little bit of sneakiness on the part of the author (aspects one could not reasonably guess) – but overall, plenty to work out whodunit.However, I have read enough Agatha Christies now to realise this doesn’t very often happen. With roughly 5 suspects per novel, I ought to solve at least 1 in 5 mysteries just by the law of chance. I doubt if I manage 1 in 10!

Este caso de Agatha me gustó bastante más que La muerte visita al dentista. La trama me gustó un montón.Una famosa escritora de novelas negras, Ariadne Oliver (Agatha, ¿eres tú?) contactará con Poirot algo preocupada. Está preparando en una finca de una acaudalado matrimonio un espectáculo de "la caza del asesino", donde se plantea un crimen que los participantes tendrán que resolver. Las peores pesadillas de Ariadne se harán realidad cuando la víctima acabe siéndolo realmente.Tanto la premisa, como la solución me han gustado bastante, porque nuevamente he visto pistas, y puedo echar la vista atrás y ver donde estaban los indicios y eso me gusta. Me encanta que estuvieran ahí y yo no los viero. La única mini pega es que algunos personajes no terminaron de ser mostrados todo lo que deberían. Pero ha sido muy disfrutable.

Greenway Boathouse, bought by Ms. Christie for £6,000 in 1932, was the setting for a murder in Dead Man's Folly. ★★★★☆ (This is a review of the audiobook.) What can I say about a talented actor such as David Suchet narrating a classic Agatha Christie mystery? The same actor who has not only won awards for his audiobook narrations, but actually played Dame Christie’s iconic fictional Belgian detective, Poirot? Only that he kicks this one up a notch - or a star, anyway. If you haven’t listened to him before, give yourself a treat and do so. Or introduce your children to the wonderful world of Ms. Christie, while you listen along. Such fun, and Mr. Suchet does the different accents so delightfully; his infections spot-on; and his diction perfect.

It’s been nearly 12 years since I’ve read an Agatha Christie novel. I used to consume her books at a lightning speed in school, but I let go once I outgrew mysteries and moved on to literary fiction. When I saw this book in the library last month, I felt this strange leap of joy. I think I read this book more for the nostalgia of it: the memories of my school library and my school librarian who knew me by name. (Yes, I spent all of my teenage years in a library.)Dead Man’s Folly is the thirty-third book in the Hercule Poirot series and follows an eclectic group of people, including a rich mansion owner and his “naïve” wife, a chatty writer, a grumpy architect, a stoic secretary, among others, as they prepare for a fête. Poirot is called on to participate in the fête by the writer, Mrs. Oliver. She suspects that the “murder hunt” she is to design is going to be used as a cover for a real murder. Will Poirot manage to stop the murder before it’s too late?In true Agatha Christie style, the characters are many and anyone could be the killer. Each character has motive and Christie very skilfully, very subtly, hints at them in the first quarter of the book. I feel like this type of writing is very rare these days. Most thrillers and mysteries simply try to shock the reader with an ending that just doesn’t fit with the overall plot (the annoying “gotcha” plot). I love Christie’s careful reveal of plot points, subtle, yet obvious enough for the careful reader to follow along trying to solve the mystery. This style of writing treats its readers as an equal, someone who is intelligent enough to solve a murder or at least get close to it.My favourite character is Mrs. Oliver, the writer. I am bound to believe that Ariadne Oliver was Christie’s spirit character. Through Oliver, Christie lets loose a couple of “writer’s rants” that any (accomplished or aspiring) writer will really relate to. Take this little gem for instance. Oliver has been called on to give a How to Write Books talk since she is an accomplished murder mystery novelist. This is what she says to Hercule Poirot about it: I mean what can you say about how to write books? What I mean is, first you’ve got to think of something, and when you have thought of it, you’ve got to force yourself to sit down and write it. That’s all. It would have taken me just three minutes to explain that, and then the Talk would have ended and everyone would have been very fed up. Hilarious.Having said this, I do think the final reveal was strange. The murderer itself was a (intelligent) surprise that I was able to accept, but I did wonder why things had to be so very complicated. There were some crucial reveals (to the reader) that were missing along the way or were too subtle for me to spot. It felt like Christie figured the ending out first and then worked backwards. Because of this, the ending seems to have more information than was ever hinted at. I did feel by the end that there was no way Poirot have got to this conclusion without a few more clues.Also, there are parts that have, um, not aged well. There is quite a bit of stereotyped language regarding women and intellect. There is much to say about how women were perceived and written about at the time, and how Christie buys into it while also subverting it, but that is a conversation for another time.All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed this read. Took me back to the old times!