Sad Cypress

Name: Sad Cypress
Rating: 4.24 (48766 reviews)
Author: Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot • Book 21

by Agatha Christie

Narrated by David Suchet

4.24 ABR Score (48.8K ratings)

★ 3.94 Goodreads (48.0K) ★ 4.63 Audible (803)

6h 1m Released 2012 Mystery

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Why Listen to This Audiobook?

David Suchet spent 25 years being Hercule Poirot on screen — hearing him here feels less like narration and more like the character finally telling you what really happened.

Great if you want: Poirot with emotional stakes, not just a puzzle
Listening experience: compact and tense — jealousy and dread build quietly
Narration: BBC full-cast dramatisation; Suchet anchors it as Poirot
Skip if: you prefer cold logic over messy romantic tragedy

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About This Audiobook

Sad Cypress, the twenty-first Hercule Poirot novel, is structured around a murder trial, told partly in retrospect. Elinor Carlisle faces the gallows accused of poisoning the young woman who won the heart of the man Elinor loved — and the evidence is, superficially, overwhelming. Christie's construction forces the reader to sit with apparent guilt while Poirot works backward from conviction to the buried facts that change everything. The novel is one of Christie's more emotionally complex entries, taking romantic obsession seriously.

David Suchet's narration brings the full weight of his decades with Poirot to a BBC Radio dramatization that treats the source material with theatrical intelligence. His voice for the detective is so embedded in the culture that it functions almost as the character's canonical accent. The full-cast format adds atmospheric texture, and at six hours the production is tightly constructed.