
The Second Gong
A Hercule Poirot Short Story
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Narrated by:
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Hugh Fraser
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By:
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Agatha Christie
About this listen
Lytcham Close, one of the oldest stately homes in England, is owned by the last remaining heir and ruled by his intolerable whims. Old Hubert demands complete silence when he plays music and times dinner exactly by a resounding gong. Rushing down at the sound of the second - or is it the first? - gong, Joan Ashby is about to find out that not only is dinner delayed, but something is going on that no one can explain.
Everyone is thrown into disarray when Old Hubert never materializes and instead a new guest is announced: Hercule Poirot himself. What unfolds is a mystery of lovers, and a death that is not as it appears.
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Murder at the Vicarage & The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Richard E. Grant, Hugh Fraser
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Enjoy the first novels that brought the world two of Agatha Christies’ most enduring detectives: Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. The Murder at the Vicarage is the first Miss Marple mystery, one which tests all her powers of observation and deduction. In The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Captain Arthur Hastings, invalided in the Great War, is recuperating as a guest of John Cavendish at Styles Court, the "country-place" of John's autocratic old aunt, Emily Inglethorpe.
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Strange choice for a narrator
- By Krystyn on 10-28-12
By: Agatha Christie
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More from Marple's Casebook
- Full-Cast BBC Radio 4 Dramatisations
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: full cast, June Whitfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Original Recording
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June Whitfield stars as Miss Marple in seven full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations. The stories included are: 'The Moving Finger', 'They Do It with Mirrors', 'Nemesis', 'Sleeping Murder', 'Tape-Measure Murder', 'The Case of the Perfect Maid' and 'Sanctuary'.
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Too little of good thing
- By Diana on 09-21-18
By: Agatha Christie
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- D. H. Saisa
- 05-25-15
Great story
I always enjoy Agatha Christie. She keeps me guessing right to the end and I am usually wrong :)
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- Travis R Fields
- 05-04-17
Original Dead Man's Mirror
This story is perfectly fine and Hugh Fraser does his normal extraordinary performance. However, please be aware that this is the original short story that was eventually expanded into the Dead Man's Mirror. There is nothing better or worse about this version, it simply differs in length, amount of detail, and the character names are different.
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- BluBtrfly1
- 06-24-22
Very Poirot!!
This is a great story, ending in a way fashioned by the great Poirot himself!!
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