Triangle at Rhodes audiobook

‎Dead Man's Mirror and Triangle at Rhodes, Agatha ChristieTriangle at Rhodes: Wishing for a quiet holiday free from crime, Poirot goes to Rhodes during the low season in October where there are but a few guests. Aside from the young Pamela Lyall and Sarah Blake there is Valentine Chantry, a consciously beautiful woman who seems to swoon under the attentions of Douglas Gold. This is done at the expense of his own wife, Marjorie, a mildly attractive woman, and Valentine's husband Tony Chantry. This is the "triangle" that everyone observes, and it gets rather absurd with the two men vying for Valentine's favour. She seems to delight in the attention. Marjorie Gold soon wins the sympathy of many of the guests of the hotel as her husband is frequently in the company of Valentine, she confesses her own doubts about Valentine to Poirot. Poirot, however, warns her to flee the island if she values her life. The event comes to a head one evening, beginning when Gold and Chantry have a loud argument. Valentine and Marjorie return from a drive, and the former is poisoned by the cocktail her husband gives her. Gold is immediately suspected, as the strophanthin that kills Valentine is found in the pocket of his dinner jacket. Poirot notices otherwise, seeing that Chantry puts it in Gold's pocket just as everyone's attention is on his dying wife. Poirot gives this information to the police, and points out to Pamela Lyall that she was focusing on the wrong triangle. The real triangle was between Douglas, Marjorie and Chantry. Chantry and Marjorie were having an affair and Chantry, bored of his wife but wanting her fortune, conspired with Marjorie to kill her. For this reason, Chantry and Marjorie decided to kill Valentine and ensure that Douglas was blamed for the murder. Also, Poirot's warning to Marjorie Gold was not because he feared she was a victim at risk of being murdered, but the opposite. He was warning her she would be caught, tried, and convicted as one of the culprits, and be hanged for murder.Dead Man's Mirror: When Sir Gervase Chevenix-Gore writes to Hercule Poirot to unceremoniously summon him down to the Chevenix-Gore ancestral pile, Poirot is initially reluctant to go. However, there is something that intrigues him and so he catches the train that Sir Gervase wanted him to. On arrival, it is clear that no-one was expecting him, and, for the first time in memory, Sir Gervase himself, who is always punctual, is missing. Poirot and guests go to his study and find him there dead, having apparently shot himself. Poirot is not convinced, however, and soon starts to prove that Sir Gervase was murdered because of various improbable factors surrounding the death, including the position at which the bullet is believed to have struck a mirror and the many different moods that Chevenix-Gore exhibited during the day. When Poirot first arrives at the Chevenix-Gore's house, he meets Chevenix's wife Vanda, an eccentric who believes she is a reincarnation of an Egyptian woman, his adopted daughter Ruth and her cousin Hugo, and Miss Lingard, a secretary helping Chevenix research a family history. It is revealed that before Poirot arrives, all the guests and family were dressing for dinner, and after they heard the dinner gong, a shot rang out. No one suspected that anything is wrong, believing that either a car had backfired or champagne was being served. And Chevenix-Gore not being the most popular of men, there are any number of suspects, including his own daughter and nephew. It is revealed that Hugo is engaged to Susan (another guest at the house) and Ruth has already married Lake (Chevenix-Gore's agent) in secret. In the end, Poirot assembles everyone in the study. He tells them that Chevenix intended to disinherit Ruth if she did not marry Hugo Trent. However, it was too late, as she was already married to Lake. Poirot says that Ruth killed Chevenix, but Ms Lingard confesses in the murder. She is the real mother of Ruth and she killed Chevenix to prevent him from disinheriting her. The bullet which killed Chevenix hit the gong (as the door to the study was open), which made Susan think that she heard the first gong (dinner was usually served after the valet would strike the gong 2 times), and it was Ms Lingard who smashed the mirror and made the whole affair look like suicide. She blew a paper bag to fake a shot. Poirot claims to suspect Ruth because he suspected Ms Lingard would rescue her daughter and confess, and he had no evidence against Ms Lingard. After everyone leaves and Ms Lingard stays alone in the room, she asks Poirot not to tell Ruth that she is her real mother. Poirot agrees as Ms Lingard is terminally ill, and does not reveal anything to Ruth who wonders why Ms Lingard committed the murder.عنوانها: «مثلث رودس»؛ «آئینه مرد مقتول»؛ نویسنده: آگاتا کریستی؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز چهاردهم ماه سپتامبر سال 1995میلادیعنوان: مثلث رودس - آئینه مرد مقتول؛ نویسنده: آگاتا کریستی؛ مترجم: فرید جواهر کلام؛ تهران، نشر پائیز، 1372؛ در 120ص؛ عنوان دیگر آئینه مرد مقتول؛ چاپ دوم 1373؛ موضوع داستانهای پلیسی و کارآگاهی از آگاتا کریستی نویسنده ی بریتانیا - سده 20ممثلث رودس: «هرکول پوارو» روی ماسه های سفید بنشسته، و چشم به دریای آبی دوخته، وی برای گذراندن تعطیلات تابستانی، به همراه دو تن از دوستان خود خانم: «پاملا لایال»، و خانم: «سارا بلیک»، به این نقطه دور افتاده، در «جزیره رودس»، آمده، و در یک هتل توریستی اقامت گزیده است؛ و داستان دیگرش «آئینه مرد مقتول» استتاریخ بهنگام رسانی 05/10/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 19/07/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

A love triangle turns deadly in a way I didn't see never see coming!Poirot and the other guests notice that the resident hotel hottie appears to be quickly stealing a mousy woman's handsome husband, while simultaneously angering her own. Poirot sees that there is more going on than meets the eye and tries to warn Mrs. Mousy to leave before...Well, before.I liked this one quite a bit!I read this as part of the short story collection Murder in the Mews.

Christie, exercising her unmatched ability to structure a mystery. This is a long short story, perhaps 15,000 words, but Christie wrings a complex murder from the six characters plus Poirot.

4 Stars. A great title. It's memorable but not that deep of a story. Perhaps the terrific David Suchet portrayal on the tube influences me. The 36 page novella was published in "The Strand" magazine in 1936 and then collected with three others under the title, "Murder in the Mews," in 1937. Memorable is the word - the story's simplicity, the beautiful holiday surroundings by the Mediterranean, and the warning delivered so obtusely by Poirot. I don't want to get too close to the resolution, so enough of that. The popularity of Christie in the 1920s and 30s partly related to the exotic locales where some of her mysteries are set. Few could afford to actually visit but many could enjoy the setting in her stories! Rhodes is a Greek island just off the southern Turkish coast, a holiday site for the rich. "Gorgeous and famous" describes Valentine Dacres, the Chanel model married to Naval Commander Tony Chantry - her fifth husband. It's not long before Poirot senses the proverbial triangle. Are Chantry and the good looking Douglas Gold rivals for Valentine's changeable affections? Is murder on the itinerary? Spend a few days on Rhodes and find out! (November 2018)

4.5 Stars rounded up to 5 Stars.

Another great Agatha short. When reading Christie’s stories, if it seems too obvious, the reader is usually wrong. The audio version narrated by Hugh Fraser was very enjoyable to listen too. (Compliments of Scrib)

(Not sure if this is a spoiler so I didn't mark it as one, I simply wrote about my changing feelings not the content)DANG.I got ahead of myself. This short story really got to me.I was passionately hating on some of the character thinking that this was the stereotypical character/plot type. Boy was I so wrong.The plot twist really blew my mind. For once I thought that Agatha Christie was going to serve up some clichesBut dang that got me good. I was questioning whether I would enjoy such a short story (especially when half of it was actually a description and not murder --> Im accustomed to a death occurring at the beginning and the rest of the novel being centred around analysis and solving the crime) so it was a surprise when I got to the end.Final Opinion: Definitely should read! Really easy and quick to read, and I found it very enjoyableIf you have a great mind then maybe you may disagree (since i've always been bad at seeing the 'truth')

Why is it that whenever I make a prediction in the beginning I always turn out wrong? I dunno, it's just always been a pattern with the Agatha Christie Poirot novels and TV Series yet I don't mind, as long a my 'grey mass' is working inside of my head (I think Poirot is really starting to get to me, in a good way)Hum, the way this story was set I was carefully running back and forth between the characetrs trying to understand who was honest and who wasn't, and I was wrong on my whole theory.The thing that scares me is the rapid speed I'm consuming this whole series at - I only have a few episodes of season 11 left and have to then desperately wait for the next season. Amazing series that will just get you thinking and alert on your toes.

Poirot goes to an island off of the Italian coast, hoping to stay away from murder. He sees a love triangle play out before him and warns a party to leave the island. They do not and then a member of the triangle is murdered. Poirot explains everything to another vacationer who says he could have done something.Who done it? (view spoiler)[ Commander Chantry. He poisoned his wife and framed Douglas Gold so that he could get with Marjorie Gold. Poirot had warned Marjorie to leave before she was caught and punished for murder. Marjorie did not. (hide spoiler)]

Even for a short story, it's quite short, so it's hard to judge it in comparison to other longer, fuller works. Obviously everything wraps up quite quickly and we don't get as many moments of Poirot investigating as we like. But at the same time, I was still actually surprise by it! So, it was a fun quick read and a good little mystery.

Rating: 4

** spoiler alert ** A bit longer than her normal short stories, which made it better in my opinion. I did figure out that it was her husband who had purposely killed her rather than the tragic mistake of the lover who was trying to poison her husband but accidentally killed her instead. I enjoyed all of the various characters who came from different walks of life but were thrown together because they were all staying at the same hotel. Rather different than the murders at the traditional English house parties where all the people usually know each other.

A rather fun and interesting twist on the ‘murder mystery’ style novel. Here we have Poitrot ON HOLIDAY, ‘trying’ to relax. Alas, even whilst getting away from it all trouble and drama always seems to follow him. In this story, a love triangle.

This is one of my favorite Hercule Poirot's adventures! This is due in part to the incredible delivery of reader Nigel Hawthorne's spot-on portrayal of siren Valentin Chantry! I have listened to this mystery multiple times over the years and it never cease to entertain!