![]() ![]() As a kid, I preferred reading the Miss Marple tales to Hercule Poirot stories. All in all, with this book, I never fell into that happy suspension of disbelief that takes place when the best readers, such as Hugh Fraser, read the best stories, such as Agatha Christie's. ![]() The best readers also manage to slip into male and female voices without it feeling false, yet Emilia's male voices remind me of my own feeble attempts to sound male when imitating people I know, but dropping a few registers but bringing little conviction to the shift in gender. The high-pitched shrieky tones of half the characters are simply unbearable. Somehow the best readers manage this trick, but Emilia Fox, no. It's always a tricky line to toe as a reader, to present a silly or annoying character without being unbearably annoying to the listener. I have listened to dozens of Agatha Christie and other mysteries on audio, and this ranks as one of the worst. Penguin Random House identifies Emilia Fox as an acclaimed audio book reader, but it is hard to make that claim with this performance. Each Character's Voice More Annoying Than the Next ![]()
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