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Sleeping Murder CD [Audiobook] (Audio CD)

by Agatha Christie (Author)
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Gwenda and Giles Reed buy a lovely Victorian house. When she begins refurbishing the house, Gwenda discovers that tearing out a wall, putting in steps to the garden, or choosing new wallpaper for the nursery are actually restoring the house to an earlier appearance, one she couldn't possibly know about. Then she has a vision of a dead woman lying at the foot of the stairs. Certain she is losing her mind, she turns to Jane Marple for help. Rosemary Leach becomes Miss Marple, flawlessly performing that clever lady, as well as Agatha Christie's myriad other delightfully drawn characters. Leach switches in and out of a variety of British accents with assurance, and as Gwenda her hint of New Zealand is appropriately subtle. SLEEPING MURDER, Christie's final novel, never disappoints. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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This is a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple, the sharp-witted spinster sleuth. Gwenda Reed arrives from New Zealand, travelling ahead of her husband with the task of finding the perfect place to make their base. In the quiet village of Dilmouth, she finds a house with immediate appeal. A few renovations will convert it into her ideal home. Then things get very strange indeed. Wanting porch stairs, Gwenda hires a builder to put them in - only to find some old steps, covered up by bushes. She decides on a connecting doorway between the drawing-room and the dining-room, but discovers one already there, now plastered over. When she opens the painted-over doors of an old cupboard to find wallpaper exactly the same as she had imagined, she begins to wonder if she is going mad. It takes Miss Marple to realise that an unsolved murder is behind Gwenda's apparent intuition - but even she does not suspect the murderer will strike again...
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4.0 out of 5 stars Rather good, Nov 7 2007
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This review is from: Miss Marple Sleeping Murder Mm (Paperback)
I enjoy the comforting, engrossing and easy-to-read puzzle-books of Agatha Christie, and particularly those featuring Miss Marple. This is an excellent entry in that series. The mystery's solution is difficult to guess at, let alone spot in advance; there is for a time a teasing ambiguity as to whether something supernatural or psychological might be going on (as in another first-class book of Christie's, The Pale Horse); the social observation is now of historical interest, as well as warmingly nostalgic; the pay-off is satisfying. As ever, though, there is the problem of Christie's dashed-off and sometimes slapdash prose, and of her editors' reluctance to improve it. Throughout Christie's career she blighted her books with an odd fault - very much a characteristic of her non-style - of repeating a word or phrase in successive sentences, sometimes more than once. This is, no doubt, a result of the relative lack of interest she had in actually writing a book once she had worked out its plot (very similar to Hitchcock, who found plotting a joy and filming a chore) and her reluctance to revise (or even re-read, I suspect). There is this example (among several) in Sleeping Murder, on page 81 of this edition: "The woman who opened the door was dark and rather forbidding. She led them across the rather bare hall, and into a study where Dr Kennedy rose to receive them. It was a long, rather high room..."
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5.0 out of 5 stars Who Done It?, April 22 2003
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This review is from: Sleeping Murder: A Miss Marple Mystery (Audio Cassette)
This story is about Gwenda and Giles Reed, and a woman named Miss Marple. Together, they uncovered an unrecognized and unreported mystery, the murder of Helen Halliday (Gwenda's dead stepmother). Gwenda and Giles are determined to solve the mystery while going against Miss Marple's advice to let a sleeping murder lie. They set off to find out who did it while getting clues from people who knew Helen Halliday and Kelvin Halliday (Gwenda's father) when they were alive.
I thought this book was excellent. Agatha Christie is now my second favorite author. Sleeping Murder was so good that I couldn't put it down and I read it in one night! Agatha Christie keeps it interesting throughout the book, so there aren't any boring parts. I thought she did a really good job describing the book too. Like "Mrs. Mountford's back parlour was a comfortable room. It had a round table covered with cloth, and some old-fashioned armchairs and a stern-looking, but unexpectedly well-sprung sofa against the wall. There were china dogs and other ornaments on the mantelpiece, and a framed coloured representation of the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose." You can just picture that scene in your head. My favorite part of the book was in Chapter 24 Scene 2, where Dr. Kennedy tries to murder her. When I was reading that part of the book, I was zoned out because I was just so kept up in suspense. I'd rate this book a 5 out of 5 stars because this is an excellent book and if you like really captivating books, I would highly recommend it for you to read.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Let sleeping murders lie, May 15 2002
This review is from: Sleeping Murder (Mass Market Paperback)
Gwen Reed was shopping for a house for herself and newly married husband Giles when she came across what seemed to be just the perfect house in southern England.

Being born in India and raised in New Zealand, why then did she have the sense of dejavu about the house? Somehow, her picture of what the house should look like after renovations coincided with exactly how the house used to look like. Even scarier, she could picture a strangled woman in the hall and knew her name was Helen. Yet, there never was a murder reported in the region for ages.

Enter Ms Marple who guessed Gwen might possibly have spent time in the house as a very young child and might possibly have witnessed a murder. But how would one go about solving a murder twenty years before which had no prior record? How would the Reeds start when they were both newly migrated to England?

Ms Marple's advise to let sleeping murder lie went unheeded by the young couple. Somewhere, there was a murderer who committed the perfect, almost perfect, crime and had been probably been comforted by the years of safety. The Reeds did not realize it at first, that what they embarked on would arouse a dangerous sentiment in a person who would do anything to keep feeling safe.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great for a Marple
I'm usually not attracted to Christie's detective, Jane Marple, but I loved this one! From the creepiness of the monkey's paw refrences to the pounding thrill towards the end,... Read more
Published on Feb 27 2002 by Denny Holland

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This is THE best Christie book EVER! I read it in one sitting. Buy it now!
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