Dead Man's Folly

Name: Dead Man's Folly
Rating: 4.17 (39079 reviews)
Author: Agatha Christie, David Suchet

Hercule Poirot • Book 32

by Agatha Christie, David Suchet

Narrated by David Suchet

4.17 ABR Score (39.1K ratings)

★ 3.82 Goodreads (38.2K) ★ 4.62 Audible (871)

6h 2m Released 2012 Mystery

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Why Listen to This Audiobook?

David Suchet spent 25 years playing Poirot on screen — hearing him narrate Christie feels less like an audiobook and more like eavesdropping on the actual case.

Great if you want: a clever setup where the mystery hides inside a game
Listening experience: warm, unhurried classic Christie — cozy with a dark undercurrent
Narration: Suchet's voice carries unmatched authority; he simply owns this character
Skip if: you want twists that hit hard — the pace is gentle throughout

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About This Audiobook

Crime novelist Ariadne Oliver has a premonition at a garden fete, a conviction that the murder hunt she has designed for the village fete is connected to something real. She calls in Hercule Poirot, and her instincts prove correct when the girl playing the pretend murder victim turns up dead at the end of a real rope. Christie's thirty-second Poirot novel uses its playful premise to explore the relationship between fiction and crime, between the detective's imagination and the criminal's, and between what people pretend to be and what they are.

David Suchet is the definitive Poirot in any format, and his narration of this audiobook brings to the page the same intelligence and continental precision he perfected over decades on screen. His delivery of Poirot's Belgian inflection and his reading of Oliver's more chaotic energy create a natural comic pairing that the novel exploits fully. At exactly six hours, Dead Man's Folly is a pleasingly contained Poirot mystery, and Suchet's performance makes it essential Christie audio.