Agatha Christie was an English detective novelist and playwright whose books have sold more than 100 million copies and have been translated into some 100 languages. Educated at home by her mother, Christie began writing detective fiction while working as a nurse during World War I. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduced Hercule Poirot, her eccentric and egotistic Belgian detective. Christie’s first major recognition came with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which was followed by some 75 novels that usually made best-seller lists. The Witness for the Prosecution is a short story that was later turned into a play. It was originally published in the periodical Flynn’s Weekly in January of 1925, under the title “Traitor Hands.” It was first published under the title “The Witness for the Prosecution” in the United Kingdom in 1933, when Christie’s collection, The Hound of Death, was released. In the United States, the story was first published in the 1948 collection, The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories. The story begins with a conversation between Mr.Mayherne, a lawyer who often catches himself mindlessly cleaning his spectacles, and his client, Leonard Vole, a 33-year-old, handsome man who is accused of the murder of Miss Emily French, an elderly, wealthy, woman he recently befriended… Enjoy free online English audiobook “The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories”, breathtaking stories by Agatha Christie.
