Always

As always excellent rendition by Fraser , and great twists and turns in the plots .thank you

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Excellent Agatha Christie

An entertaining collection of short stories well narrated and easy to listen to. A must for any AC fan

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Excellent

Just as excellent as you would expect from the author, and the excellent narration of Hugh Frazer

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Much enjoyed

What made the experience of listening to The Labours of Hercules the most enjoyable?

Short stories would seem to be Agatha Christie's forte, and these do not disappoint. The stories themselves are highly enjoyable and relatively easy to follow, and the narration is excellent. These stories can be listened to time and again without boredom beginning to sink in, and I would highly recommend this audiobook to any Christie fan.

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Surprised me a number of times!

I listen to a lot of Agatha Christie and so I thought that I would be able to guess the endings in this collection of stories, how wrong I was! I was surprised by a number of the twists and turns. A good collection and well read (as always) by Hugh Fraser.

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Great fun and excellent narration.

A good read that is timeless and Hugh Fraser's narration is absolutely perfect but then one would not expect anything else from this top rate actor.

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Worth listening to.

Not quite in the style of other books but still very enjoyable. And to make it better the delivery was superb.

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Contrived but entertaining

This collection of 12 short stories, tenuously based on the original Graeco-Roman myth (of which Poirot claims never to have heard before he is challenged on the appropriateness of his first name in the prologue and decides to undertake a parallel set of tasks before retiring), is ingenious and unusual, but willing suspension of disbelief is more essential than ever.
Christie is at her most waspish - all foreigners, the less affluent English, the nouveau riche, women of less than perfect appearance, wearing off-the-peg clothes, or pursuing a career are all subject to ridicule. Glad I am she didn’t realise that we Scots exist: the Irish come under fire in this book, but as a sideline.
She’s getting up to date in her own way - drug dealing, but terribly well-bred and respectable, covering up political corruption (but in a good cause!!), unemployment (but portrayed as a distraction from the real business of auctioning a Rubens painting!).
At the same time the unemployability of those boys brought up to expect wealth without work, and girls trained to make “good marriages” continues to play an important role in her writing.
The story of Alexander VI’s goblet is particularly unhistorical and fanciful, for many reasons.
Nevertheless it’s an enjoyable listen, even if you get mental indigestion afterwards.

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Absolutely fantastic

A fantastic performance from dear Hugh Fraser-beautifully performed with grace and humour-great for commutes, duvet days and dog walks! Thoroughly Recommended

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Wonderful stuff, on the whole. Remember, it’s just light entertainment.

Some of the many individual short stories (there is an overarching theme) were a tad light, but overall an enjoyable listen.
I like Hugh Fraser’s narration - even if his changes of accent are a bit wobbly at times. But, of course, nothing is perfect without the marvellous David Suchet.

BTW - The screenplay for the TV version by Guy Richards did a superb job of incorporating a few of the stories into a single tale in the one location. One of my favourite episodes as it’s often very funny in a surreal fashion.

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