Audiobooks Like Evil Under the Sun (G. K. Hall's Agatha Christie Series)

David Suchet bringing Hercule Poirot to audio is a different kind of authority than Hugh Fraser's — where Fraser's version carries the warmth of a sidekick's loyalty, Suchet's Poirot is the television character given new life in sound, the Belgian formality intact and the little grey cells very much in evidence across six highly efficient hours. The island-locked setting concentrates Christie's methodology. All ten recommendations are other Christie titles from various narrators, a broad author survey for listeners who want to stay in the golden-age detective world and explore Poirot and Miss Marple beyond the Suchet recordings.

10 audiobooks for fans of Evil Under the Sun (G. K. Hall's Agatha Christie Series)

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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.

  2. 2
    A Pocket Full of Rye cover

    A Pocket Full of Rye

    Miss Marple • Book 6

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Richard E. Grant

    4.32 ABR Score (55.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.93 Goodreads (54.4K) ★ 4.68 Audible (1.3K)
    6h 51m listening time • Released 2013
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    Sleeping Murder

    Miss Marple • Book 12

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Stephanie Cole

    4.30 ABR Score (54.4K ratings)
    ★ 4 Goodreads (53.5K) ★ 4.67 Audible (819)
    6h 17m listening time • Released 2012
  4. 4
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles cover

    The Mysterious Affair at Styles

    A Hercule Poirot Mystery • Book 1

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Hugh Fraser

    4.29 ABR Score (515.5K ratings)
    ★ 4 Goodreads (514.2K) ★ 4.55 Audible (1.3K)
    5h 57m listening time • Released 2012

    Christie's first Poirot novel — written during WWI, still one of her best-plotted — introducing the fastidious Belgian detective who would define the golden age of mystery.

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    [The Moving Finger] [by: Agatha Christie]

    Miss Marple • Book 3

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Richard E. Grant

    4.23 ABR Score (60.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.85 Goodreads (59.1K) ★ 4.63 Audible (1.3K)
    6h 23m listening time • Released 2013
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    A Caribbean Mystery

    Miss Marple • Book 9

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Emilia Fox

    4.23 ABR Score (54.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.85 Goodreads (53.4K) ★ 4.69 Audible (716)
    6h 36m listening time • Released 2013
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    The Body in the Library

    Miss Marple • Book 2

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Stephanie Cole

    4.23 ABR Score (131.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.81 Goodreads (130.4K) ★ 4.62 Audible (1.3K)
    5h 21m listening time • Released 2012
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    At Bertram's Hotel

    Miss Marple • Book 10

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Stephanie Cole

    4.09 ABR Score (48.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.71 Goodreads (47.3K) ★ 4.57 Audible (981)
    6h 44m listening time • Released 2012
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    Murder Is Easy

    Superintendent Battle • Book 4

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Gemma Whelan

    4.01 ABR Score (33.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.77 Goodreads (33.4K) ★ 4.54 Audible (357)
    6h 57m listening time • Released 2020
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    And Then There Were None

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Dan Stevens

    4.69 ABR Score (1.7M ratings)
    ★ 4.27 Goodreads (1.6M) ★ 4.63 Audible (20.5K)
    6h 1m listening time • Released 2013

    Christie's masterpiece — ten strangers on an island, one by one eliminated, with no possible solution. The best-selling mystery novel of all time, and it earns every copy.

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