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Spider’s Web audiobook

  • By: Agatha Christie
  • Narrator: Hugh Fraser
  • Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: July 03, 2012
  • Language: English
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Spider’s Web Audiobook Summary

A classic from the queen of mystery: Agatha Christie.

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Spider’s Web Audiobook Narrator

Hugh Fraser is the narrator of Spider’s Web 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.

About the Author(s) of Spider’s Web

Agatha Christie is the author of Spider’s Web

Spider’s Web Full Details

Narrator Hugh Fraser
Length 4 hours 17 minutes
Author Agatha Christie
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date July 03, 2012
ISBN 9780062232199

Additional info

The publisher of the Spider’s Web is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062232199.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Rodrigo

December 27, 2021

** spoiler alert ** Libro entretenido que es una novelización de Charles Osborne de una obra de teatro de A. Christie.El libro se situa en una mansión o casa de campo donde una mujer joven, Clarissa, con una gran imaginación para crear historias para su uso y disfrute, (poniendo muchas veces en un compromiso a sus amistades) descubre un cadaver en su casa, concretamente en la biblioteca (guiño a otra obra de A. Christie) justo antes de una visita importante y empieza el lío.Se van conformando una serie de mentiras (una red de telarañas) para ocultar la verdad a la policía la cual, debido a un chivatazo se presentan en la casa por sorpresa. 7/10

Jon

June 24, 2018

Very tight and clever mystery - I am becoming a huge Agatha Christie fan - she is a word surgeon who always operates on the corpus delicti with efficient and swift skill.

Daniel

February 23, 2019

Bicu lenj pa cu samo copy/paste opis za drugu knjizicu :P Lenj sam."Pozorisna predtava Agate Kristi pretocena u roman od strane Carlsa Ozborna.Vidim da ima puno zalbi da se knige na cita kao da je pislala Agata, da nije dovoljno dobra itd. E sada moguce da je do prevoda ali meni licno nista nije bolo oci i da mi je neo rekao da je to sama spisateljica napisalapoverovao bi mu.Sem toga ovo je manje vise klasicna Agata prica i meni je bila zabavna za citanje i prepoucio bi dalje. U detalje necu ulaziti da ne kvarimo misteriju.Cheers"

Leyendo_a_solas

July 18, 2022

La telaraña es una novelización de una obra teatral de Àgatha Christie. La novelización va a cargo de Charles Osborne, que es la única persona en el mundo con permiso para publicar en nombre de la autora.Si buscáis en google os saldrá como Charles Osborne un señor que estuvo 68 años con hipo. Pues ese no es, es otro🤣Es una lectura superágil, yo lo devoré en días. Se trata de un libro muy corto y también muy entretenido.Nos encontramos todo el rato en em mismo escenario y los personajes son pocos, pero eso no nos libra de que la trama vaya enroscandose y dando vueltas.Mantiene la intriga durante toda la lectura, hasta que se resuelve el misterio sorprendiendo a cualquiera.Tiene escenas incluso divertidas. Vaya, que lo tiene todo. Por eso nuestra querida Àgatha es la reina del misterio.

Vikas

August 05, 2019

Originally written as a play, it has been novelized by Charles Osborne. This is an interesting murder mystery centered on delightful character of Clarissa. Being a philatelist, I loved the plot since it centers around a philatelic rarity. Quite fast paced, the plot is made interesting by the various scenarios played by Clarissa. Great read

Ivonne

September 28, 2016

Oh, what a tangled web we weaveWhen first we practise to deceive! (Sir Walter Scott) The irony of Spider’s Web, of course, is that our plucky heroine, the pretty, clever Clarissa Hailsham-Brown, only gets into trouble when she tries to tell the truth. An inveterate prankster, Clarissa is used to spinning tales and being believed. What makes things difficult is when Clarissa actually does stumble onto a dead body in the drawing-room. Then the ingenious Clarissa springs into action.To say any more would be to spoil this short novel, which first appeared as a play in 1954, but was turned into a novel by Charles Osborne and published in 2000. Let’s just say that there are plenty of twists and turns and that I was caught completely by surprise by the ending. Even without either Hercules Poirot or Jane Marple, Spider’s Web has to rank amongst the most charming of Agatha Christie’s works. If you have the chance to enjoy Hugh Fraser reading this work on Audible, don’t pass it up. And special thanks to Claire Wilson, who brought this book to my attention.

Mohd

July 05, 2015

It keeps you guessing to the end!

Catherine

August 28, 2020

I thought this was a really fun mystery from Christie/Osbourne, very lighthearted. The main character - Clarissa Hailsham-Brown - was written really well. The story was good, and a satisfying ending.

Ainur

June 30, 2015

OMG. I had so much fun reading this. This is a novel adapted by one of Christie’s plays. It’s short and quick read. I read this during my one hour and 15 minutes flight from London to Amsterdam. I simply cannot put it down. Definitely a page-turner. (Being a Christie’s fan myself, I probably be biased about this.)I love the plot, it’s simple and not complicated. The whole event took place at Clarissa’s house (heck, only one part of the house). Unpredictable, as usual. (I kept thinking that the gardener is the suspect) I love the main character, Clarissa Hailsham. She’s charming, loveable and funny. I love her wittiness. Overall, definitely worth read and I love it! (Not as good as And Then There Were None, but I love it!)

Sanela

January 20, 2019

Četvrta knjiga pročitana 2019. godine je "Paukova mreža" ("Spider's web" by Agatha Christie) najprije pisana kao pozorišni komad kojeg je Čarls Ozborn pretvorio u roman. Agata je jedinstvena i neponovljiva, nije bez razloga svjetski poznata sa najvećim brojem prevedenih i štampanih primjeraka svojih knjiga, odmah nakon Biblije i Šekspira. Jednostavno pisana, pitka, interesantna, priča, ne možete ostaviti knjigu dok je cijelu ne pročitate... Ovdje je glavna junjakinja sklona šalama, izmišljanju i simpatičnim smicalicama, a onda joj je u nekoliko sati izdešava toliko stvari da joj ni policija ni muž neće povjerovati da je to istina, a ne tek jedna od njenih izmišljotina.

Khushi

August 06, 2015

Such a good book. It really forces one to read it, being so gripping.

Rebecca

April 02, 2014

Loved this book! Always love Agatha Christie. You can't go wrong with her books.

Meg

August 25, 2021

** spoiler alert ** An adaptation of Ms. Christie’s play into a novel, which I felt was more successful than Black Coffee. This novel did not have the feeling that everything was happening in one room, although of course it was in the play. Clarissa and her diplomatic husband, Henry, are renting a county house in order to get Henry’s daughter from his first marriage, Pipa, out of London after her mental breakdown due to her mother’s abandonment. Clarissa is entertaining some friends, Sir Rowland, Hugo and Jeremey, and they head over to the golf club. While they are gone, she is confronted by Oliver, the new husband of Henry’s ex-wife, and he seems surprised to see her. He claims that he is there to make arrangements for Pippa to move back with them. Pippa overhears and is adamant that she will not go back. Clarissa makes him leave and gets the gardener, an oppressive woman named Mrs. Peek, to escort him out. Clarissa sees to calming Pippa, getting her dinner, and then returns to the room to prepare it for her husband’s arrival with a foreign diplomat for a top secret meeting. It is then that she discovers Oliver’s dead body behind the sofa! She immediately calls the men back from the golf club and asks for their help in hiding the body. She says that she can’t call the police because of the impending arrival of her husband with the diplomat but before they can act, the police arrive on their own claiming an anonymous call told them there was a murder. The men managed to hide the body in the secret passage just in time and Clarissa tries to tell them that they were mistaken but they insist on searching the house and eventually find the body. They suspect that Clarissa killed him, thinking that he was a burglar, so that is the tale she tells them in order to protect Pippa who had “confessed” to Clarissa before the police arrived. It turns out that Pippa thought she had killed him because she put a spell on him, not because she actually struck him. Sir Rowland remembers that Pippa found a secret drawer in the desk and suspects that Oliver was really after something in the desk, left by the previous owner, and that someone else was after the same thing and killed him. That turned out to be true and it was Jeremy who killed him to get the rare stamp hidden in the desk. He snuck back to the house, hit him with his golf club, snuck back to the course and called the police, planning to frame Clarissa and Henry with the murder. A solid mystery.

Atharva

May 30, 2018

Spiders Web*A novel by Agatha Christie, Charles Osborne* Actually, Spider's Web is a popular play scripted by Agatha Christie and novelized by Charles Osborne. The narration has close resemblance to Christie's writing style. I found myself turning the pages with mounting impatience. The story is pretty lively and the fact that it's novelized from a play is clearly seen. I would just love to watch the original play but the book has it's own glory. Now, this mystery novel is unique in it's own way, the circumstances of murder and its link towards the past and present is quite different, the characters are minimal and the time frame for the story is just one evening. So, you get a condensed and fast paced mystery novel that succeeds in entertaining you in every possible way. I adored the character of Clarissa, her imagination and how she perceives the world. Her cheerful nature turned the story dramatically and added a plentiful of humour to it. Her relation to the fatherly Roly adds greater depth to the story. Pippa, a twelve year old girl is another great addition but I think she's a bit silly for a twelve year old girl. (But the story takes in 1950's, so it's expected) The primary attraction of the book is short and small cliffhangers (or engagers as I would call them) makes the reader read another chapter and go on finishing the book quite quickly, the reader is absolutely hooked with the consistent and the surprising plot. I even liked the interaction between the four primary characters and the circumstances of Henry as a host for the Prime Minister and Kalendorff's meeting added some tension to the situation. The past also links with the present and provides a crystal clear idea about how the crime was done. I especially loved the cheerfulness and the plot twists. There are a few police officers in the story who play a key role and investigate the primary characters, they, I should say, compliment the characters and question them to provide indirect answers to the readers through which it is fairly easy to suspect and decide for certain who the murder was. The story takes place in a house, for the duration of a couple of hours, with around 6-7 major characters so it's very easy to follow and finish off quickly. Do expect hidden personalities, homicide, mild jokes, wine, bridge games, police officers, secret compartments, a haunting history and a very satisfying ending. Nice Reading!

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