Joan Hickson IS Miss Marple
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We bought this for a long car journey and it was excellent. The four stories are about 30 minutes long and each one involves a charactor at a dinner party (attended by Miss Marple of course) recounting a mystery to which they know the answer. Each one is 'solvable' to some degree which adds to the listening pleasure.
Joan Hickson does an excellent job of reading the stories and her voice will always be my Miss Marple. Luckily she doesn't 'try to do the voices' but just reads the stories simply.
Although expensive for only one listen really I've lent it to my Mum and hopefully it can then get shared about to make it better value.
For what it is it was great.
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Second part to "The Bloodstained Pavement"
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"The Blue Geranium" contains the last six stories of the book "The Thirteen Problems" ("The Blue Geranium", "The Four Suspects", "The Companion", "A Christmas Tragedy", "The Herb of Death" and "The Affair at the Bungalow"). "The Bloodstained Pavement" includes the first seven stories of the book.
You can actually buy an audiobook by Mistery Masters Series from amazon.com that includes both parts and is much cheaper (shipping and handling included, especially if you do not live in UK), by the name of "The Tuesday Club Murders", also read by Joan Hickson, although there's a small problem with the labelling of the cds, which is mostly wrong (the stories are interchanged but in order).
Again, I do wish Amazon would include number of discs, actual length and other information in the audiobooks' reviews, instead of just generally placing the reviews on the book in them.
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