Very Worthwhile!

There are actually two very distinct novels by Agatha Christie in a single audio offering.

Completely different from works featuring Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple, “The Secret Adversary” may be compared to John Buchan’s works. It tells a series of adventures, with twists as frequent as they lack verisimilitude. Yet, the result is fun, even exciting to a large extent. It is suitable for a wide audience, including pre-teenagers. First published in 1922, it is surprisingly modern with Tuppence, the lead female character, having little to do with how women were portrayed a few decades earlier, in Victorian times.

Also different from conventional detective novels is “And Then There Were None”, a very famous work whose initial title was changed due to evolving sensibilities. Once again, the plot is anything but realistic, including the beginning where eight strangers accept a free stay on a remote island from someone they never met and the lack of reference to any uneasiness from sleeping in a house sheltering a certain number of corpses, each in its own room. The peculiarity is that each of the characters is at once potential victim and perpetrator as well as amateur detective. Though the course of events is heralded from the start with a nursery rhyme, there is definite suspense throughout as to how it will materialize and how it came to be.

The narrator is different for each novel but in each case very professional.

Overall, this entertaining proposition is highly advisable to all who enjoy classic thrillers

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