Dumb Witness is a detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 5 July 1937 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year under the title of Poirot Loses a Client. In The New York Times Book Review, Kay Irvin wrote that "Agatha Christie can be depended upon to tell a good tale. Even when she is not doing her most brilliant work she holds her reader's attention, leads them on from clue to clue, and from error to error, until they come up with a smash against surprise in the end. She is not doing her most brilliant work in Poirot Loses A Client, but she has produced a much-better-than-average thriller nevertheless, and her plot has novelty, as it has the sound mechanism, intriguing character types, and ingenuity. On 28th June Hercule Poirot receives a letter in the deceased’s handwriting dated two months before, enquiring his advice on a ‘very delicate matter.’ Although there are not any details given, he decides to go at once to Market Basing, the town where she lives. Little does he realise about her demise nor the fact that the well-to-do spinster has left everything for her companion, Wilhelmina Lawson. He is intrigued that Arundell has apparently made a new will a few days after her fall, which no longer in favour of her two nieces and a nephew. Then he realises that it was not Bog’s ball that brings about the incident. As a result, suspicions are drawn to people who were in the house at that time. You can listen online to free English audiobook “Dumb Witness” by Agatha Christie on our website.
