Audiobooks Like A Murder Is Announced: B2 (Collins Agatha Christie ELT Readers)

Emilia Fox brings a warm clarity to Christie's Miss Marple mystery that suits the village setting — her narration keeps the social comedy as legible as the crime mechanics, never letting either overwhelm the other in a nine-hour listen that moves at a comfortable pace. The recommendations are almost entirely other Christie titles, which means you're staying inside the same puzzle architecture and the same English-village moral universe that makes this one tick.

10 audiobooks for fans of A Murder Is Announced: B2 (Collins Agatha Christie ELT Readers)

  1. 1
    Magnolia Blossom: an Agatha Christie Short Story cover

    Magnolia Blossom: an Agatha Christie Short Story

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Alex Jennings, Emilia Fox, Full Cast, Julian Rhind-Tutt

    3.50 ABR Score (529 ratings)
    ★ 3.33 Goodreads (508) ★ 3.52 Audible (21)
  2. 2
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    Dumb Witness. The Agatha Christie Collection.

    Hercule Poirot • Book 17

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Hugh Fraser

    4.37 ABR Score (50.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.92 Goodreads (49.4K) ★ 4.75 Audible (1.4K)
    7h 19m listening time • Released 2012
  3. 3
    Poirot Investigates (Agatha Christie) cover

    Poirot Investigates (Agatha Christie)

    Hercule Poirot • Book 3

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Richard Armitage

    4.36 ABR Score (79.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.88 Goodreads (76.0K) ★ 4.68 Audible (3.1K)
    7h 13m listening time • Released 2021
  4. 4
    The Murder on the Links cover

    The Murder on the Links

    Hercule Poirot • Book 2

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Richard Armitage

    4.36 ABR Score (126.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.87 Goodreads (121.5K) ★ 4.64 Audible (4.7K)
    7h 27m listening time • Released 2020
  5. 5
    The Man in the Brown Suit cover

    The Man in the Brown Suit

    Colonel Race • Book 1

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Nicola Barber, Graeme Malcolm

    4.25 ABR Score (129.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.95 Goodreads (126.6K) ★ 4.51 Audible (3.1K)
    7h 44m listening time • Released 2020
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    The clocks Agatha Christie

    Hercule Poirot • Book 34

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Hugh Fraser

    4.08 ABR Score (43.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.73 Goodreads (42.8K) ★ 4.56 Audible (922)
    7h 14m listening time • Released 2012
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    Hercule Poirot's early cases

    Hercule Poirot • Book 38

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by David Suchet, Hugh Fraser

    4.08 ABR Score (16.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (16.6K) ★ 4.67 Audible (198)
    8h 18m listening time • Released 2007
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    The Mystery of the Blue Train

    Hercule Poirot • Book 6

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Sean Pratt

    3.99 ABR Score (84.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.88 Goodreads (84.7K) ★ 4.63 Audible (67)
    7h 34m listening time • Released 2024
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    Hercule Poirot cover

    Hercule Poirot

    Hercule Poirot #0.1-0.51

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Nigel Hawthorne, Isla Blair, Simon Vance

    4.62 ABR Score (12.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.36 Goodreads (10.9K) ★ 4.81 Audible (1.7K)
    35h 5m listening time • Released 2021

    David Suchet's definitive performance as Poirot anchors this collection of 51 short stories, each a perfectly compact puzzle that rewards listening in one sitting.

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    Murder on the Orient Express

    A Hercule Poirot Mystery • Book 10

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Dan Stevens

    4.67 ABR Score (755.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.2 Goodreads (741.3K) ★ 4.68 Audible (13.8K)
    6h 37m listening time • Released 2013

    Christie's most celebrated Poirot case — a murder on a snowbound train, a cast of suspects with no apparent motive, and a solution so audacious it shouldn't work but does.

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