Audio Book: The Body In The Library
Written by Agatha Christie; Read by Stephanie Cole (Audio Partners)
Reviewed by Erick Mertz

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The axiom goes that you can't judge a book by its cover... but its title, might therein lie enough of an indicator to weed chaff out from the grain? Certainly it is, when one picks up an Agatha Christie mystery entitled The Body in the Library. There are suicide blondes and seedy cinematic dogs prowling around quiet St. Mary Mead. When one of the platinum headed vixens is strangled in Colonel Bantry's library, a hailstorm of rumors and conjecture attempts to drive the eye of Miss Marple to distraction.

She is keen, however. She manages to stay, like other professionals of her ilk, one step ahead.

Agatha Christie's name is synonymous with mystery. She is not only the most popular author of her genre, she is one of the most popular authors of all time. There are few if any accolades which eluded her career. The ability to weave base personality flaws into motive against a characteristic backdrop has created a catalog of fine reading, perhaps most of all because of their adherence to successful form. Reader Stephanie Cole is delightful to say the least, her slight British drawl keeping the enthralled listener's ear pinned.

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