The Murder on the Links

Name: The Murder on the Links
Rating: 4.36 (126208 reviews)
Author: Agatha Christie

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 Released 2020 Mystery

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Why Listen to This Audiobook?

The gap between this book's Goodreads score and its Audible rating tells you everything: Richard Armitage does something to Christie's prose that the page alone can't.

Great if you want: Golden Age whodunit with a detective rivalry and romantic subplot
Listening experience: brisk and atmospheric — cozy-tense with a satisfying French countryside mood
Narration: Armitage's deep baritone lends Poirot's Continental world unexpected weight
Skip if: you want Poirot fully in command — he gets genuinely outmaneuvered here

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About This Audiobook

Hercule Poirot receives a desperate letter from a South American millionaire in the French seaside town of Merlinville, and arrives too late to prevent the man's murder, his body found stabbed in a freshly dug grave beside the golf course. The investigation quickly produces a surplus of suspects, each with adequate motive and a willingness to deceive, while a second identical murder transforms the case entirely. Christie's second Poirot novel introduces the character of Hastings in full and showcases the detective's rivalry with the French police.

Richard Armitage is an exceptional choice for Christie, his richly textured voice giving Poirot's precision and quiet theatricality genuine presence without resort to parody. His narration of the novel's shifts between charming social observation and sharply observed deduction feels effortless. At under eight hours, this is a perfectly formed specimen of the Golden Age mystery, and Armitage's performance makes it one of the best audiobook versions of any Poirot novel.