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    The Sittaford Mystery

    Written by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Hugh Fraser

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    Mystery and suspense surround a seance in a snowbound house on the edge of Dartmoor, where the prediction of a grisly murder is only the precursor to an ingenious deadly crime and one of Agatha Christie’s most gripping thrillers…

    In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a small table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: ‘Captain Trevelyan… dead… murder.’

    Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately, his home is six miles away and, with snow drifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on foot…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 6, 2006
    ISBN9780007249961
    Author

    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

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    • 4/5
      Murder and fun in a small, snow-bound English village. You may think you know who dunnit, but you'll be surprised who actually did, and for what reason.
    • 2/5
      okay for a long boring trip=otherwise too formulaic
    • 4/5
      One of Christie’s stand-alone novels, it’s another standard cozy – a locked room mystery with a pretty obvious perpetrator. Although it wasn’t Christie’s best, I always enjoy the settings and her sleight-of-hand, even after I’m onto her.
    • 3/5
      The Sittaford Mystery, like The Murder at the Vicarage seems to reflect Christie looking for, if a not a new pattern for writing her books, at least the introduction of a new variation within the mix. Once again, as in several earlier books, the most proactive of the characters is a young woman although the point of view is not hers. The mystery itself is less ornately planned than many of the earlier Christies and is a rare example of a believeable “aha” moment of detection. All the information the reader needs to at least suspect the real murderer has been laid before them and they are given every chance to make the same deduction(s) as the detectives. This book shares something else with its immediate predecessor and that is a sharp move away from the pattern in the earlier books of showing spirited and intelligent young women being drawn to strong men. In earlier books Christie even writes of this tendency as if it was an evolutionary compulsion. However in this and the previous book she shows bright intelligent young women drawn to quieter less stereotypically manly men. Throughout this book it is clear that Emily Trefusis is brighter than her fiance as well as having a stronger moral backbone. Yet at the end it is not presented as a tragedy that she does not leave her fiance for the clearly more intelligent and ambitious Enderby. Yes, Emily clearly loves James Pearson but the reader is left to wonder if part of that love is the fact that he is a maleable and fertile field for the expression of her own intelligence and ambition.
    • 1/5
      Dull and predictable
    • 4/5
      High Fraser is the best person to read these Christie stories. He brings them properly to life with his cut glass English accent. Brilliant!
    • 3/5
      (#3 in the 2007 book challenge)Another find at the used book store, this one featuring a fab 1950s cover. It was one of those mysteries that you read and then immediately forget all the details. I am sure you will be surprised to learn that someone is murdered in a small English village, and then there are a bunch of suspects who are all hiding something.Grade: B-Recommended: Absolutely fine to pick up if you come across it while visiting an English country home while on vacation.
    • 5/5
      A wonderful mystery with some great characters. Though I admit to not being entirely satisfied with the ending, it is surprising and still makes sense, so I can't -really- complain.
    • 4/5
      This is an OK Christie which features her some of her signatures, a group of people who are isolated from the rest of the world, in this case snowed in, a murder (obviously) but unusually everyone who is snowed in can't have committed the murder. As usual not everyone is what they seem, she also introduces one of her signature characters, the strong capable women in love with a flawed weak man. What is unusual is a supernatural element, with a rational explanation - she would repeat this in The Pale Horse - and the murderer is one of the last people you would suspect.
    • 4/5
      The Sittaford Mystery is the very first Agatha Christie novel I have ever read, and it certainly lived up to the author's reputation. This book is very easy to read, the simple prose style belying the complexity of the plot. I formed a theory as to the culprit fairly early on, only to find myself second guessing my guess as the story progressed. I worked my way through several suspects before discovering that my original theory was correct. In today's world of graphic serial killer thrillers, The Sittaford Mystery was a breath of fresh air. I shall definitely be reading more books by this author.
    • 2/5
      Typical Agatha Christie fare, though I can't say I loved it. The prose was uninteresting and the final "twist" is one that can be seen a mile away. It's decent entertainment for a long car ride, but if you're not interested in having a laugh at dated gender stereotyping, give this one a pass.
    • 4/5
      A murder in a tiny Dartmoor village in the dead of winter sets the stage for this classic Christie whodunit. Several had a motive, few had an opportunity. The most likely suspect is quickly imprisoned, but his fiance remains unsatisfied with the law's conclusions. Determined to clear James Pearson's name, Emily Trefusis sets off with intrepid newspaper reporter Charles Enderby to seek out the circumstances of Major Treveylan's murder. As with all of Christie's books, we get plenty of atmosphere as the plot unfolds in the Dartmoor countryside. Here we see the deepest depths of winter. This novel has all of the elements of a juicy, quick read. The plot and suspense build as we follow Emily on her quest for answers. This is classic Christie- a bit of brain-fluff, for sure, but engaging and well-written.
    • 5/5
      Christmas is approaching. Snow has fallen in England over the last four days and the landscape on the fringe of Dartmoor at Sittaford House is several feet deep in snow. To all intents and purposes the tiny village of Sittaford is almost completely cut off.The winter tenants of Sittaford House, Mrs Willett and her daughter Violet, are entertaining the residents of the nearby estate cottages to afternoon tea. To pass the time the group tries a spot of table turning. When the table spells out the message "Captain Trevelyan ... dead... murder", one of the party, Trevelyan's lifelong friend Major Burnaby decides to make the six mile trek into the village on foot, just to check his friend's welfare.Christie still appears to be searching for a protagonist, although by this time, her 11th novel, Hercule Poirot has appeared 5 times, Superintendent Battle twice, and Miss Marple made her debut in the previous novel THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE.I don't think the new protagonist, Inspector Narracott is a success. In fact we never really get to know him. He is rather colourless, uninspiring, as well as secretive, and Christie only lets him loose once more, many years later in a play.Narracott shares the limelight of the investigation with Emily Trefusis, engaged to be married to young man accused of Captain Trevelyan's murder, and a journalist by the name of Charles Enderby. This couple are much more interesting and through them Christie brings in a romantic element, to add to the rather supernatural one of the table turning.All of the people who were in Sittaford House that afternoon have something to hide, and so the story is rather liberally sprinkled with red herrings, and with sub-plots, including a breakout from a nearby prison on Dartmoor which reminded me a bit of the plot from Dickens' GREAT EXPECTATIONS. There is a basic assumption that the murderer had either to be from Sittaford House itself or from one of the cottages. Christie plays a little with the reader through the dual investigations, and it means that we don't actually have all of the facts at our disposal.
    • 5/5
      The new residents at Sittaford House planned a little evening party with neighbors. Even the snowstorm didn't discourage them. But when a little harmless table turning became something more sinister, everyone became a little nervous. Was Captain Trevelyan really dead? His friend Major Burnaby set off on a 6 mile hike to find out.The police decide that there was nothing supernatural about the death - it was murder, and they know who did it. But the fiance of the accused is sure of his innocence and sets off to find the real killer.
    • 5/5
      Agatha Christie's humour is superb. The plausibility of possible suspects keeps one guessing. The narration is very good - only the South African accents (as a South African myself) are terribly done.
    • 5/5
      I loved this mystery and did not guess the killer .
    • 5/5
      Good plot twists. Enjoyed the young character's role in solving the crime.
    • 4/5
      A little clunky language in the beginning, but overall a good story. I liked the protagonist in this one - too bad Christie didn't use her more.