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  • By: Agatha Christie
  • Narrator: Stephanie Cole
  • Category: Crime, Fiction
  • Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: July 03, 2012
  • Language: English
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Sleeping Murder Audiobook Summary

In Agatha Christie’s classic, Sleeping Murder, the indomitable Miss Marple turns ghost hunter and uncovers shocking evidence of a perfect crime.

Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernize the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs.

In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them, they were to solve a “perfect” crime committed many years before.

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Stephanie Cole is the narrator of Sleeping Murder audiobook that was written by Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

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Sleeping Murder Full Details

Narrator Stephanie Cole
Length 6 hours 17 minutes
Author Agatha Christie
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Publisher HarperAudio
Release date July 03, 2012
ISBN 9780062232168

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The publisher of the Sleeping Murder is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Crime, Fiction

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The publisher of the Sleeping Murder is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062232168.

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Goodreads Reviews

Ahmad

January 12, 2022

Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple #13), Agatha Christie Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in October 1976.Newlywed Gwenda Reed travels ahead of her husband to find a home for them on the south coast of England. In a short time, she finds and buys Hillside, a large old house that feels just like home. She supervises workers in a renovation, staying in a one-time nursery room while the work progresses. She forms a definite idea for the little nursery. When the workmen open a long sealed door, she sees the very wallpaper that was in her mind. Further, a place that seems logical to her for a doorway between two rooms proves to have been one years earlier. She goes to London for a visit with relatives, the author Raymond West, his wife, and his aunt, Miss Jane Marple. During the play, The Duchess of Malfi, when the line "Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle; she died young" is spoken, Gwenda screams out; she saw an image of herself viewing a man saying those words strangling a blonde-haired woman named Helen.عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «جنایت خفته»؛ «جنایت از یاد رفته»؛ «جنایت خفته قتلی در گذشته های دور»؛ «قتل خاموش»؛ نویسنده آگاتا کریستی؛ انتشاراتیها (ارغوان؛ هرمس - کتابهای کارآگاه؛ نشر روایت؛ ثالث؛ میلاد؛ نشر کهن)؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش ماه آوریل سال دوهزارودو میلادیعنوان جنایت خفته با ترجمه جناب عبدالحسین شریفیان، تهران ارغوان، سال1372؛ در311ص؛ موضوع داستانهای نویسندگان بریتانیایی - سده20معنوان جنایت خفته با ترجمه خانم گلرخ سعید نیا؛ تهران، هرمس، کتابهای کارآگاه، سال1381؛ در250ص؛ چاپ دوم سال1384؛ و چاپ پنجم سال1393؛عنوان جنایت از یاد رفته با ترجمه جناب عباس خیرخواه، تهران، نشر روایت، سال1373، در316ص؛ تهران، ثالث، سال1393؛ در259ص؛عنوان جنایت خفته قتلی در گذشته های دور با ترجمه خانم پروین ادیب، تهران، میلاد، سال1374؛ در280ص؛عنوان قتل خاموش با ترجمه جناب علی سجادپور؛ مشهد، نشر کهن، سال1373؛ در285ص؛در این داستان «گواندا رید»، و همسرش «جایلز رید»، سه ماه است ازدواج کرده‌ اند، آن دو میخواهند از «نیوزلند»، به «انگلستان» برگردند؛ «جایلز» کارهایش را باید در «نیوزلند» تمام کند، او همسر خویش «گواندا» را، پیشاپیش می‌فرستد، تا خانه ی مناسبی، در «انگلستان» پیدا کند؛ «گواندا»، به ویلای کوچکی از دوره ی «ویکتوریا»، با نام «هیلساید» برمی‌خورد؛ که برای فروش گذاشته شده، او ویلا را می‌خرد؛ پس از خرید ویلا، رخدادهای شگفت انگیزی، برای «گواندا» رخ می‌دهند، و او چیزهایی را در ویلا کشف می‌کند، که انگار پیشتر نیز، از وجودشان خبر داشته اند؛ دری مخفی شده، در بخشی از خانه، طرحی از کاغذ دیواری، که حالا زیر کاغذ دیواری‌های جدید ویلا، پنهان شده و ...؛ «گواندا» از این رخدادها ترسیده، و نگران می‌شود؛ تصمیم می‌گیرد مدتی از خانه دور شود، به همین دلیل به دعوت «ریموند وست»، و همسرش «جوآن»، که از دوستان «جایلز» هستند، به «لندن» میرود؛ «گواندا» به همراه میزبانانش و خاله «ریموند»، که پیرزن جالبی، به نام «جین مارپل» است، به تماشای نمایشنامه‌ ای به نام «دوشس دالفی» می‌روند؛ اما در صحنه ی پایانی نمایش، آنگاه که یکی از بازیگران جمله‌ ای را بر زبان می‌آورد، «گواندا» یکباره فریادی می‌کشد، و از سالن بیرون می‌رود؛ و ادامه ی داستان ...؛نقل از متن برگردان خانم «گلرخ سعید نیا»: (هرچه می‌دانم ‌می‌گویم عزیزم؛ «کلوین» مدتی در حالت عصبی به سر میبرد؛ او پیش من آمد و گفت که کابو‌س‌های مختلفی می‌بیند؛ او می‌گفت که این رؤیاها همیشه مثل هم هستند و به یکجا ختم می‌شوند، خفه کردن «هلن»؛ سعی کردم که به ریشه‌ ی مشکل بپردازم؛ حتما این اوهام، حاصل درگیری‌های دوران کودکی اش بوده است؛ پدر و مادرش، حتما زوج خوشبختی نبودند؛ خوب، به تمامش نمی‌پردازم؛ برای یک پزشک جالب خواهد بود؛ به «کلوین» پیشنهاد کردم، که با یک روان‌پزشک متخصص، مشورت کند، اما او توجهی نکرد، فکر میکرد که تمام این حرف‌ها بیهوده است؛ فکر می‌کردم، که او و «هلن» زندگی خوبی ندارند؛ اما او هرگز، راجع به آن حرفی نمیزد، و من هم دوست نداشتم، که از آن‌ها سئؤال کنم؛ مسئله وقتی بالا گرفت، که او یکروز عصر، به خانه‌ ی ما آمد؛ جمعه بود؛ یادم می‌آید، که من تازه از بیمارستان به خانه رسیده بودم، و او در اتاق انتظار، منتظر من بود؛ حدود یک ربع به یک بود؛ به محض رسیدن من به داخل اتاق، سرش را بالا گرفت، و گفت: من «هلن» را کشتمبه حرف‌هایش زیاد اهمیت نمی‌دادم؛ فکر می‌کردم تمامش خیالات است؛ «لی‌لی» هیچوقت دنبال حقایق ساده نمی‌رفت؛ خیلی لاطائلات برایم تعریف می‌کرد؛ راجع به این‌که آقای خانه، خانمش را کشته، و احتمالا جسد را در زیرزمین گذاشته، و یک دختر فرانسوی، که از پنجره به بیرون نگاه می‌کرده، و چیزهایی و یا کسانی را دیده؛ به او گفتن، عزیز جان به خارجی‌ها توجه نکن، همه ‌شان دروغگویند، مثل ما نیستند؛ وقتی زیادی حرف می‌زد، دیگر به حرف‌هایش گوش نمی‌دادم، چون که از کاه کوه می‌ساخت؛ «لی‌لی» از جنایات زیاد هم بدش نمی‌آمد؛ همیشه روزنامه ‌ی «ساندی نیوز» را می‌گرفت، که درباره‌ ی قاتلین مشهور مطلب می‌نوشت؛ کله ‌اش از این چیزها پر بود، و دوست داشت فکر کند، در خانه ‌ای زندگی می‌کرده، که در آن قتلی اتفاق افتاده، خوب فکر می‌کرد، با این فکرها به کسی صدمه نمی‌زند؛ اما وقتی نظر مرا راجع به آگهی پرسید، به او گفتم «بی‌خود دنبال دردسر نرو.» اگر به حرف من گوش کرده بود، حالا زنده بود.)؛ پایان نقلتاریخ بهنگام رسانی 21/12/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 22/10/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

Anne

December 20, 2019

Since I've been recommending this to everyone, I thought I'd listen to the audio version and see how it held up.Yep. Still (to me) the best!What's my favorite Agatha Christie novel? Well, I'd have a hard time picking between Murder on the Orient Express and Sleeping Murder. But this one is more, um, realish?The idea that what happened in Murder on the Orient Express could actually happen...is pretty far-fetched. And, yes Sleeping Murder is (by today's standards) kinda outlandish, too.BUT.Less outlandish than MotOE.

Luffy

March 01, 2020

Miss Marple appears scantily in this particular story. Here, the murder dominates the scene. I've noticed that the murders that Agatha Christie places in the relative past, that is prior to the current investigation, well these murders always have the bodies tumbled out of the cupboard. Books of Agatha Christie that use this device appeal to me, and also to many others, judging by the several mysteries where the author uses this trick. It is a trick after all, a very solid gimmick that engenders macabre feelings like there was no tomorrow. I scarcely noticed that Miss Marple was not being her usual self, she didn't draw too much parallel with human psychology when explaining her thoughts at the end. In fact there's little proof that Miss Marple knew with certainty of the murderer's identity. There's no proof of the murderer's crime even. Thankfully it's not one of those stories where the frail Miss Marple derails the mind of a hardened serial killer, with cheap tricks, like in "A Murder Is Announced" for example. So yeah I solved this case. However, the case was very deceiving and I was up against a palpable wall of fog. There was not much to latch onto. There is no slow start to this book, which was one of the reasons for the five stars I gave it. I was completely baffled by the events leading to the bewilderment of one Gwenda Reed. Along with the sense of evil there's a forbidding atmosphere and a hint of regret and a pining at the waste of life. There were two things that put me on the right track. First the action of cutting that tennis net to shreds. Secondly, the murderer is mostly the one who is able to influence the case and distort facts to his advantage. I didn't pick on the wound that Helen got on her foot. I only knew that the culprit didn't have a brain teaser of an alibi. I absolutely loved the quote from the Duchess of Malfi. The quote, which I can't paste because it's too much of a bother to go look for it in my ebook, defines the galling evilness of the crime. It also gave away the fact that the murderer was insane to a degree. I would have wanted for Miss Marple to rant against the wicked nature of the crime, but she was surprisingly passive in this book. If I remember correctly there was one moment where her eyes expressed anger but that was in the middle of the book and at that time she wasn't sure of the solution to the murder. Another reason for liking this book so much is the vivid depiction of the characters. Among all the pure and innocent characters that Agatha Christie has thrust upon our readership, the young Reed couple was one the most believable. It's very difficult to make decent, innocent characters come to life. The author presents Gwenda and her husband in their non British simplicity. They are so pure that the finicky English countryside people warm up to them with no trouble. It's unclear whether the main protagonists had a New Zealand accent and how strong it was. But the Reed couple were life like and they hid the fact that they were cogs in the story which I enjoyed very much.This is, I regret, already the last Marple book that was unread uptil now. The book called Nemesis had a similar strong presence of evil and a murder set in the past, with a close person as the murderer. Miss Marple books are as fine as Alice In Wonderland or Sherlock Holmes stories. They are the finest simple sustenance that the English literature can impart to the young and not so young. They are to be cherished.

daph pink ♡

January 08, 2022

Agatha Christie Book Reading ChallengeBOOK 22 :- SEPT 20204 STARS

Nandakishore

April 04, 2017

In the beginning, a personal anecdote:As a child, I was troubled intermittently by a nightmare. I am walking around the compound of my maternal grandfather's ancestral home, when I reach a dilapidated building in a secluded corner. I open it and enter, even though my better sense counsels against it. Inside, it is a prayer room dedicated to evil gods. Their pictures are hung all over the walls, and their ugly idols leer up at me. Also, the place is full of the images of the tortured victims of these deities, their silent screams, mutilated bodies and blood.I wake up in a cold sweat.The mystery of this dream was solved later. It was only a poster of Naraka (the Indian hell) which I saw as a child, in that house, which left a lasting impression on me. I will not dwell on the Freudian aspects of this incident: just point out the fact that childhood traumas, however trivial, have lasting impacts. I speak from personal experience.Onward with the review.***What if one has witnessed a murder as a toddler? What if one's childhood psyche had repressed that incident, until it came back to haunt one as a distorted vision in one's beautiful new home which one suddenly realises is none other than the venue of that Sleeping Murder?One would go mad...that is what nearly happened to Gwen. Fortunately, she had Miss Marple to help.Gwenda and Giles Reed return to England from New Zealand. She has no memories; as far as she knows, she has never been in England. However, buying the dream home she had set her eyes on, Gwen begins to be troubled by memories, which she thinks are from another life. She runs away to London to escape. However, watching a performance of the Duchess of Malfi, and hearing the words “cover her face; mine eyes dazzle; she died young” brings a terrifying image into her mind… the blue strangled face of a beautiful young girl, and she herself watching it through the bannisters… and the monkey’s paws…Gwen is convinced that she is mad. But thankfully, she had chosen to stay with Raymond West, who most fortuitously had his Aunt Jane Marple on the premises. The old lady is not ready to go for a supernatural explanation. She has a much more prosaic one: Gwen has actually seen somebody murdered in the same house, where she has stayed as a child – a memory which has been suppressed.The young lady and her husband soon find out that Miss Marple had hit the nail on the head. Gwen had stayed in the house as a little child, along with her father and her flighty stepmother Helen, who had disappeared, presumably run away with one of her many young men. However, Gwen’s father was convinced that he murdered her, and ultimately was committed and died in an asylum. But it is now possible that he may not have been mad – that Helen was actually murdered (though not by him). However, the tantalising question arises… if she was murdered, who is the killer?Thus begins a murder investigation into the past by the young couple, against the counsel of Miss Marple to “leave sleeping murder lie”. Once she is convinced that they will not let go, Miss Marple agrees to join them, if only to keep them safe.And thus begins a rollercoaster ride, one of Christie’s most suspenseful novels.***As a mystery, Sleeping Murder is rather predictable. There was no “aha!” moment at the end, because I already had a good idea who the murderer was. But I give the novel four stars for its structure and breakneck pace, rather like a Hitchcock movie… and also for the personal experience I quoted at the beginning. I could sympathise with Gwenda.

James

April 25, 2022

Sleeping Murder is the last full-length novel in the Miss Marple Mysteries written by Agatha Christie. I've read the books and seen several film and television adaptations, but I decided to reread them in order again throughout the last year. I'm officially finished and will move on to Hercule Poirot during the summer. Christie always intrigues me, and I admit, I'd mostly forgotten the plot of this one. A lot of coincidences occur, which prompts some readers like me to wonder how much of life is controlled by memory. Perhaps scents or sights or tastes draw us back to places and situations we've been in previously. Gwennie finds herself purchasing a house that apparently she once lived in as a child. How did that happen? And who once inhabited the dead body she suddenly recalls seeing all those years ago? As the stories begin to unfold, each new character adds layers to the plot until it's thickened so much, there can only be one conclusion. Luckily, I was correct in identifying the killer, but it was sad to know the wrong man was imprisoned decades earlier. A fine example of Christie's talents and ability to capture a reader's attention with only the smallest of details.

Bob (aka Bobby Lee)

May 02, 2022

2022 rereadI needed something in which I could totally immerse myself. What could be better than an Agatha Christie where I could read and in my head see and listen to the image and voice of Joan Hickson, who portrayed Miss Marple in the 1987 film adaptation - which is one of my favorites. No disappointment here, folks. This was a reread and I'll just tuck it away for the future.Quintessential Miss Marple quotes -"Now suppose you sit down here, dear, and just tell me all about it."“No,” said Miss Marple. “You believed what he said. It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.”

Mara

June 03, 2019

4.5 stars - While, yes, I knew who probably dunnit from almost the jump in this one, I don't care. This gave me the CLASSIC first-read feels of a really good Christie. I'm not sure this one is actually as good as something like A POCKET FULL OF RYE, but the sheer joy this gave me throughout the experience bumps this up to me. A very fitting send off for good old Miss Jane Marple

Vikas

August 04, 2019

The last of Miss Marple mysteries, Agatha had saved the best for the last. Of all Miss Marple's mysteries, this is the best. For a change we do not find Miss Marple relapsing into her past or comparing with other incidents from her village. Instead she is working as a full fledged sleuth. The plot is with its usual twist and turns with a brilliant end. The best of Miss Marple cases. Great read

Lady Clementina

March 21, 2017

Book 5 for the Miss Marple challenge. I was excited to read this one as this is the first of the books in the Miss Marple challenge that I had not read before. I also only discovered because of the challenge that though this book was published last, it was written much earlier and chronologically also falls early in the series. This one was in a way Miss Marple’s Five little Pigs, a murder that has happened years ago, without even clarity on whether it was a murder but based on a (then) child’s memory of events. Gwenda Reed arrives in England to find a house for herself and her husband and ends up finding the “perfect” house, only to have some mysterious things happen. It turns out that she has been there before, and lived as a child in that very house, but not only that she may have also witnessed a murder. Miss Marple urges Gwenda and Giles to leave matters be but the two set out to investigate, and she soon joins them using her “social network” (the kind there was before the days of Facebook and such) to get introduced to Dillmouth society. They identify and look up people from Gwenda’s family’s past, meet and interview them trying to pick up clues into what happened all those years ago and whether Gwenda’s memories were all real or mixed with fancy somehow.The mystery/puzzle itself was very enjoyable and I would have been entirely surprised by whodunit (only I remembered suddenly from a TV adaptation that I’d seen some time ago) since for most of the book I was thinking on the wrong track. That did slightly spoil the surprise element for me but I nevertheless enjoyed the characters and how once again it is what people are “inside”—their true natures—that holds the key to how they act, irrespective of the facade they put on for us to see in everyday interactions. Miss Marple in this one I found getting closer to the image of Miss Marple one has in one’s mind—using the same skills and still grey haired and rather frail but not as lacy and fluffy as in the earlier books. Also, she has a far more active part in this one, getting herself to Dillmouth, and participating in the investigation. Needless to say, I enjoyed it very much!

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