The Murder on the Links

A Hercule Poirot Mystery

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: John Rayburn

The detective story was more or less invented by Edgar Allen Poe, but he more or less lost interest with the genre and moved on, with the next leading practitioner being Arthur Conan Doyle with his Sherlock Holmes tales. It was about 33 years before Agatha Christie entered the detective mystery field, and she wound up becoming one of the most well-known English authors of the 20th century. Her success was so extraordinary she became the bestselling novelist of all time, with only the Bible and Shakespeare exceeding her sales.

Her accomplishments often came in unusual fashion, as she would be walking down a street and a plot idea would come to her. All this had begun when she had a poem published in a local London newspaper when she was only four years old. Remarkable, yes, but the extremely early beginning led to her tremendous success. She finally created a play, The Mousetrap, that began in 1952 and had more than 27,000 performances before being finally halted in mid-March, 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic. For now, let’s listen to one of her creations for the infamous Belgian detective/investigator Hercule Poirot. You can rest assured we’ll find out “whodunnit.”

Public Domain (P)2022 John D. Rayburn

Worst reading ever

This is without question the most abominable reading of any audiobook I have ever listened to. I’m sure John Rayburn is a nice man, and may be right for some books, but this is the worst case of miscasting I’ve ever observed. An Agatha Christie /Hercule Poirot book should have English and Belgian accents. Not one from the western US. I couldn’t listen to more a half hour of this before I had to give up and return it to Audible.

Heard it was a great story but couldn’t get into it

Could not get past the Narration. Not trying to be mean but I just couldn’t get past it. Poor guy right?

great book...BAD SOUND AND NARRATION

Agatha Christie is great at writing, so the story is great. The problem with this audio book is that the sound quality is TERRIBLE. Never before have I gotten qn Audible book that sounded this bad. The narrator is not a good one either. It was distracting at times.

Worst selection I've made on Audible

I listen to a lot of Agatha Christie mysteries, and I've read even more. This audiobook kept popping up in emails as a pre-order suggestion based on my library. There was no button to listen to a sample at the time that I can recall. The cover art should have been a clue, too, but I thought it was placeholder art due to it being a pre-order. And I was apparently drunk with my Audible credits when the email came my way because I used one. So many regrets here. The narration is just awful. It looks like this book fell into the public domain and an opportunity to make a buck fell into someone's hands. I do not plan to make this mistake again.

I can not recommend this reading of this book to anyone. I abandoned it in the first chapter. I suggest you abandon it now before hitting the order button.

Horrible narrator

I could not stand listening to this man’s voice.

He shows no emotion at all

Worst performance on audio book I've ever heard!

This is without a doubt the worst audio book I've ever heard. I bought the nook version so Ican read it instead because I LOVE Agatha Christie but I can't listen to this grating voice another minute! He sounds like an old smoker with loose dentures!

Sorry Agatha

I can't finish this. The narration left a ringing in my ears. Horrible narrator.

Terrible Reader

Had to quit the book the reader was so bad. May have been a good story. Sorry to have missed it!

Terrible Narrator

The voice of the narrator is extremely difficult to listen to. After a few minutes I had to turn it off and return the book

Do not purchase!

The narrator’s voice distracts from the story. I could not get past chapter 1, very disappointing!