Agatha Christie was an English writer of crime and romantic novels. She is best remembered for her detective stories including the two diverse characters of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. A Murder Is Announced is a work of detective fiction and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in June 1950 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in the same month. The story begins when in the local newspaper of Chipping Cleghorn an advertisement in the paper announces that there will be murder on Friday, October 29th at Little Paddocks at 6:30 pm. Despite the warning, the neighbours show up, much thinking that it is the invitation to a game. Letitia Blacklock is surprised by it but passes it off as a joke. At 6:30 that night, the lights go out. A man with a torch appears and threatens them to put their hands up. Everyone, assuming it's a game, does so. A gun goes off in the room. The guests panic and the door slams shut. When the lights are returned, Letitia's ear has been grazed and the man with the gun is dead. His name is Rudi Scherz. It turns out that he had been asking for money a few days earlier. The police are called and after a short investigation, they decide that it was a suicide or a bizarre robbery went wrong. Craddock, the Inspector, brings Miss Marple into the investigation because he doesn’t agree that the event was a suicide or an accidental death… Enjoy free online English audiobook “A Murder Is Announced”, a novel by Agatha Christie.
