The Secret of Chimneys

In an American Voice

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Deaver Brown

A combination of a thriller, romance, and mystery, introducing the stolid, immovable Inspector Battle.

Public Domain (P)2021 Deaver Brown

Bad narration

The music in the background was annoying. The American narrator couldn't pronounce some words and hesitated at some spots. The narration was very quiet in some places and done very quickly. I love listening to Agatha Christie books on Audible but not this one. It is the worst narration that I have ever heard. I tried to listen to it two different times and I just couldn't follow it. The narration was so bad that I really couldn't figure out what was going on in the story.

Good story. Awful reader.

I didn’t realize you could ruin an Agatha Christie, but I’ve been proven wrong. This is such a great story & was completely ruined by the delivery. Paragraphs sounded like entire run-on-sentences as if there was no punctuation in the book. The voice is so bland you can barely tell which character is speaking (or if it’s the narrator). At some points he sounds drunk and slurring. This is a great book by one of the world’s best authors. Don’t let this version ruin it for you - find another!

Not a fan of this interpretation.

The reader is hard to listen to and the background music is annoying. Not need Christy dumbed down.

Don't buy it!

Annoying narration, with double annoying background music which was loud and continual. Should have known when it said "in an American voice".

Sound like narrator is in a box

Poor diction, bad production. Don’t buy.
And since I have to include more words- HELL NO! Don’t buy!!