Audiobooks Like Sleeping Murder

Stephanie Cole narrates Christie's last Miss Marple with the unhurried precision the character herself would approve of — a six-hour mystery that uses Cole's warmly authoritative voice to make the paranormal premise feel grounded, as if the most natural thing in the world is an elderly woman untangling a decades-old murder from the evidence of a haunted house. All ten recommendations are other Christie titles narrated by Hugh Fraser, sharing that same golden-age construction where the puzzle is pleasurable precisely because the world is tightly bounded and the detective is calmly in control.

10 audiobooks for fans of Sleeping Murder

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    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie - HINDI Book 1) (Hindi Edition) cover

    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie - HINDI Book 1) (Hindi Edition)

    Hercule Poirot • Book 4

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Hugh Fraser

    4.64 ABR Score (359.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.26 Goodreads (354.0K) ★ 4.69 Audible (5.6K)
    6h 54m listening time • Released 2012
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    Five Little Pigs cover

    Five Little Pigs

    Hercule Poirot • Book 24

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Hugh Fraser

    4.43 ABR Score (96.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.03 Goodreads (94.4K) ★ 4.71 Audible (1.8K)
    6h 40m listening time • Released 2012
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    Peril at End House cover

    Peril at End House

    Hercule Poirot • Book 8

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Hugh Fraser

    4.41 ABR Score (86.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.02 Goodreads (84.6K) ★ 4.71 Audible (1.5K)
    5h 46m listening time • Released 2012
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    Dumb Witness. The Agatha Christie Collection. cover

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

    Hercule Poirot • Book 23

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by David Suchet

    4.34 ABR Score (90.9K ratings)
    ★ 3.98 Goodreads (89.7K) ★ 4.67 Audible (1.2K)
    6h 25m listening time • Released 2012
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    After the Funeral (The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection; Imitation Leather) cover

    After the Funeral (The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection; Imitation Leather)

    Hercule Poirot • Book 30

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Hugh Fraser

    4.30 ABR Score (51.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.92 Goodreads (50.4K) ★ 4.69 Audible (1.1K)
    6h 55m listening time • Released 2012
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    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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    Death in the Clouds

    Hercule Poirot • Book 12

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Hugh Fraser

    4.29 ABR Score (68.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.86 Goodreads (67.0K) ★ 4.7 Audible (1.1K)
    6h 18m listening time • Released 2012

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