1992 audio adaptation of Christie's 1933 mystery, in five 30-minute
episodes. Lord Edgware has been denying his actress wife a divorce;
she's been talking about killing him; and then he's murdered, and his
staff say they saw her enter the house. But she has a perfect alibi…
This is a decent story, largely London-bound, and with a
succession of suspects, some of whom die before they can be picked up.
Indeed, there's something of a paucity of revealed evidence until the
last moments, and perhaps a bit too much reliance on things other than
Poirot's investigative competence.
Unfortunately modern actors (even thirty years ago) mostly couldn't
manage a genuinely upper-class voice, and they come over at worst as
deliberate parody; at best, as the sort of businessman who wants to
appear upper-class.
Apart from that the production works quite well; perhaps there are a
few similar voices too many, and some Christie adaptations reduce the
cast, but this series normally tries to be pretty faithful to the
published story so that's a fair editorial call.
Disposable, which I suppose one could say the story itself is, but
also enjoyable.
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