Third Girl

A Hercule Poirot Mystery

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient secretary. The second is an artist. The third interrupts Hercule Poirot's breakfast, confessing that she is a murderer - and then promptly disappears.

Slowly, Poirot learns of the rumors surrounding the mysterious third girl, her family, and her disappearance. Yet hard evidence is needed before the great detective can pronounce her guilty, innocent, or insane.

©1966 Agatha Christie Limited (P)2002 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Need I say more?!

OK OK, I must admit, somewhat slow at first. however, it being Hercule Poirot, I knew it would be great. and it was.

Did she...or didn't she...that IS the question!

Who is the nefarious soul in this Christie tale? Could it be the young woman who confesses to Poirot that she has murdered someone (and exactly WHO has she murdered)? That would be entirely too simple and would not require the use of Poirot's "little gray cells"! Perhaps it was the young artist who pursues a relationship with this woman; maybe one of her flatmates - one of whom works for her rich (and almost blind) uncle. As usual, the cast of characters (and potential culprits) is large and leave one with any number of possible solutions as to the identity of the murderer. Hugh Fraser's narration is also "spot on". The inclusion of Ariadne Oliver, and Poirot's exasperation with her, is always a quirky, enjoyable part of a Poirot storyline as well.

Suspenseful and complex mystery

I've listened to almost all of the Poirot series and the is one of my favorites. Christie adds in a little more suspense than in most of the other stories and the complicated web of characters and possible clues was great. Mr. Fraser's excellent acting and nuanced experience with Christie's work makes listening seamless and never draws you out of the story.

great story, well done

like all her books, this one is fantastic and a lot of fun figuring it out.
nearly got it all right.
enjoy this one

Great twists in this one!

Thoroughly enjoyed this book and loved Hugh Fraser! Highly recommend this Agatha Christie book! Poirot is such a doll!

Absolutely Enjoyed Listening

Really enjoyed listening to this Agatha Christie mystery! Have enjoyed already relistening to it.

Agatha Christie is incomparable

There is no one that ever quite reaches her level again and again each mystery writer is compared to her and so very few can come close to her genius

A little ambivalent...

This was my first Poirot story, so I had really high hopes/expectations. Firstly, the juvenoia, especially towards young girls, was interesting to read because it reminded me a lot of things you’d hear nowadays about Gen Z and millennials, though it was a little frustrating at times because I couldn’t tell if Christie was condemning this kind of sexist talk that keeps coming up or simply representing how people spoke about young women in her time (or both?).
The voice actor is fantastic! Each character was unique. I loved Mrs. Oliver! Smart, quick on her feet, brave, funny, overall a cutie.
The book dragged on a few times and felt like it was getting nowhere, and then everything sort of happened all at once. In all honesty, the ending kind of felt like a Scooby Doo reveal where everything got tidied up really quickly. Something happens at the end that was sort of brushed over and felt like a quick fix to a bigger problem.
Overall I was definitely interested in the story, but I couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed at the end.

Fabulous Hugh Fraser

There’s a reason Mr. Fraser has recorded so many Christie novels… He is incomparable! I’ve seen others complain that this is one of her lesser works, but as with so many Christies, follow the money and the story makes sense. :)

A Man Reading An Authoress' Words

Would you consider the audio edition of Third Girl to be better than the print version?

When a man reads the main character of a book authored by a woman it changes the tonality of the story and the character of the males.
The authoress does no speak with a man's voice. I don't mean the pitch but the thought process, social influences etc. and points of view that effect how women look at he world and how men look at the world..
I say that having read many if not most of Christie's books and I see, as a woman, a very different character for her male leads than the male readers portray.

That and just the fact that women are not reading male authors and given the male leads a woman's interpretation. It would change the character.

What three words best describe Hugh Fraser’s voice?

It likely doesn't interpret the characters anything like Agatha Christie would sound reading her characters.
Male read women characters as very stereotyped. Not like real people.