The Witness for the Prosecution Dramatised (Audible Audio Edition) Agatha Christie Miriam Margolyes Stephen Moore Hywell Bennett full cast BBC Worldwide Limited Books
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Soon to be a major new London theatre show, The Witness for the Prosecution follows the hapless Leonard Vole as he learns he has been accused of murdering a wealthy widow in order to get his hands on the inheritance. His predicament is made even worse when he discovers his wife to be the chief witness against him. The trial proceeds with a number of unexpected twists.
This classic BBC radio drama stars Hywell Bennett as Leonard, and Miriam Margolyes as his chief accuser.
The Witness for the Prosecution Dramatised (Audible Audio Edition) Agatha Christie Miriam Margolyes Stephen Moore Hywell Bennett full cast BBC Worldwide Limited Books
This is not really a book. It is a short story. That makes it very fast. It finishes so it's "developed"--the basic turn is there. It is both predictable and suspenseful depending on whether you have ever heard the story or book or several versions of The Witness for the Prosecution. I bought the "book" to see if I could find the first time the idea was published. I disliked the most recent version on TV. "Disliked" is probably mild. I thought it was pretty terrible, although it was visually excellent. If you want to see the best version, check out the Billy Wilder (Director) version, with Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich and the marvelous Charles Laughton from 1957.Product details
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The Witness for the Prosecution Dramatised (Audible Audio Edition) Agatha Christie Miriam Margolyes Stephen Moore Hywell Bennett full cast BBC Worldwide Limited Books Reviews
I love Agatha Christie, and especially her well written short stories.
I thought I had read all of her short stories, but most of these were new to me.
This is a collection of her very early short mystery stories, mostly written in the 1920s, and they are all very good. Only one, the last one which was written in the 1930s, features one of her famous detectives, Poirot. Some deal with the supernatural. All are interesting and well written.
Don't miss this! If you have seen the classic movie with Charles Laughton, Marlene Dietrich, Elsa Lanchester, and the always delightful Una O'Connor, you'll know the story. The book and the film naturally have a few differences, like all books-into-movies do, but I was delighted with both. I highly recommend reading the book- okay, okay, so it's not a book, it's a short story- and seeing the movie. Both are a lovely way to spend a day, or part of one.
Agatha Christie's "The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories" is a collection of 11 of her fairly early short stories (I've included a list of those stories at the bottom of this review). Officially, the book is 275 pages long, so these 11 stories average out to a pretty short 25 pages each. In general, the stories start with a highly contrived situation, proceed through some fairly ridiculous actions, and then arrive at their painfully obvious end (in a few cases, by introducing new data in the last page or so). Of the 11 stories, only one, "Mr. Eastwood's Adventure," was actually enjoyable. And, even that one had an obvious ending. So, I'm rating the whole collection at a Not Very Good 2 stars out of 5.
The short stories in this collection are
1. The Witness for the Prosecution ("Traitor's Hands" 31 January 1925)
2. The Red Signal (June 1924)
3. The Fourth Man (December 1925)
4. S.O.S. (February 1926)
5. Wireless (September 1925)
6. The Mystery of the Blue Jar (July 1924)
7. Sing a Song of Sixpence (2 December 1929)
8. Mr. Eastwood's Adventure ("The Mystery of the Second Cucumber" August 1924, then "The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl")
9. Philomel Cottage (November 1924)
10. Accident ("The Uncrossed Path" 22 September 1929)
11. The Second Gong (June-July 1932, expanded to "Dead Man's Mirror" March 1937)
Agatha Christie’s 1925 short 23-page story was written perfectly, just to the point, without an unnecessary word. It takes under half an hour to read it. She adapted her story as a play in 1953 and changed the ending in a dramatic manner.
Later, when people recognized how wonderful and surprising the story was and wanted to make a film of it, they had to expand the tale well-beyond what the master wrote to fill the time needed for a film. They did so in the 1949, 1953, and 1982 TV versions, the 1957 movie version, the 2016 two part BBC series of the tale, and in the 2017 film which combined the two BBC parts into a single movie.
The story was originally published as “Traitor Hands.” The solicitor to 33-year-old impoverished Leonard Vole, who is accused of the murder of the rich elderly Emily French, is convinced that Vale is innocent. Vale tells him that he first met French, who was some 40 years his senior, when he helped pick up some packages she dropped, and he left her immediately after helping her. He happened to meet her again at a party she attended, when he visited a friend who told him that she was very rich. She liked him and requested that he visit her, told him she is lonely, requested he come again, and on the 3rd or 4th visit she requested he handle her finances, but he never derived any benefit by doing so and did not know that she had made him her primary beneficiary.
His account is disputed by the old lady’s maid who insists she heard the lady talking to a man at 930 PM, although she does not know what man, Emely French hoped to marry Vole because he never told her he was already married, and that French told her Vole knew about the will. Vole tells his solicitor that this testimony proves his innocence since his wife can confirm that he came home at 920.
The solicitor visits the wife who states she is not really married to Vole because she is already married to a man who is insane, her husband came home at 1030 and admitted killing the old lady.
The solicitor then receives a letter from an elderly woman proving that the supposed wife is lying. What happens next is surprising.
This is an Agatha Christie classic. I've seen the movie before and had read dozens of Agatha Christie books when I was a kid, but I'd never had the opportunity to read this story. It's clever and entertaining, and if you're not familiar with the movie, I think you'd enjoy it all the more. It's a quick read, can be finished in one sitting, and is a stand-alone story that doesn't feature Christie's most famous detectives, so you need not be familiar with any of the characters. For the price, it's definitely worth it.
This is not really a book. It is a short story. That makes it very fast. It finishes so it's "developed"--the basic turn is there. It is both predictable and suspenseful depending on whether you have ever heard the story or book or several versions of The Witness for the Prosecution. I bought the "book" to see if I could find the first time the idea was published. I disliked the most recent version on TV. "Disliked" is probably mild. I thought it was pretty terrible, although it was visually excellent. If you want to see the best version, check out the Billy Wilder (Director) version, with Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich and the marvelous Charles Laughton from 1957.
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