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Marple's Casebook
Apr 23, 2025 5:39 AM

Author:Agatha Christie,June Whitfield

Marple's Casebook

June Whitfield stars as Miss Marple in eight thrilling full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations.

A Pocket Full of Rye A spate of unusual deaths is linked to the nursery rhyme 'Sing a Song of Sixpence'.

4.50 from Paddington After witnessing a murder on a train, Mrs McGillicuddy calls on Miss Marple.

At Bertram’s Hotel Crime lurks beneath the surface of a respectable Mayfair hotel.

The Body in the Library A mysterious blonde is found murdered in Dolly Bantry’s library.

The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side At a benefit held at Gossington Hall, harmless Mrs Badcock is fatally poisoned.

A Caribbean Mystery Bored in paradise, Miss Marple finds her interest aroused by an old soldier’s tale.

Murder at the Vicarage Everyone in St Mary Mead detested Colonel Protheroe – but who killed him?

A Murder is Announced A startling entry in a local paper’s personal column leads to a deadly shooting.

These BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations feature eight of Miss Marple’s most complex and intriguing cases. Based on the original novels by Agatha Christie, they are performed by a stellar cast.

Duration: 16 hours approx.

Reviews

Dark As My Heart, the most lauded Finnish crime novel of recent years, lives up to its acclaim

—— Marcel Berlins , The Times

A dark and thrilling book with unexpected twists.

—— Weltexpres (Germany)

The king of Helsinki Noir... The novel soon brings James Ellroy to mind, more specifically the brilliant My Dark Places, where Ellroy tries to make sense of his murdered mother's fate

—— Aamulehti (Finland)

Here is an international crime sensation, a wordsmith who delivers macabre details and close observations in a clear-cut and poetic voice. A dense crime mystery.

—— Dagsavisen (Norway)

Within the framework of an intricate plot sure to delight every puzzle loving crime enthusiast, unfolds a sensitive and multi-layered story

—— Aftenposten (Norway

Dark As My Heart is first and foremost a strong psychological story of obsessions and the ways they manifest themselves. Of sorrow and longing. Of revenge and pain. Tuomainen's writing is excruciatingly suspenseful, with a rough masculinity, and yet so beautiful

—— Rakkaudesta kirjoihin (Finland)

A breathtaking journey between a deserted estate by the water and a wintery Helsinki." ????

—— Politiken

Antti Tuomainen is a poet as well as one of Finland’s most successful crime writers. Dark As My Heart… had a rapturous reception in his home country, where a Finnish crime novel since 2000… The novel contains passages of lyrical intensity, along with bloody scenes that would not be out of place in a Jacobean revenge drama

—— Sunday Times

Scandinavian crime fiction has a reputation for being a class apart, and this gripping Finnish psychological thriller displays the finest hallmarks of the genre.

—— Simon Shaw , Mail on Sunday

A novel as icy as Helsinki itself, Tuomainen delivers a dark, chilly and evocatively written novel of obsession and twisted emotion.

—— Carla McKay , Daily Mail

It’s dark, captivating and troubling.

—— Crime Fiction Lover, Book of the Year

The story carries a strong purpose, a downright obsession, under which everything culminates. .. The novel is extremely well written, and is a pleasure from a literary perspective as well

—— Ilta-Sanomat (Finland)

Refined writing and thinking, original and different from the mainstream. *****

—— Iltalehti (Finland)

Dark as My Heart is definitely THE crime story of this summer. (…) Antti Tuomainen is the freshest success in the Finnish thriller novel field. His new book Dark As My Heart proves it. The book is sensational

—— Etelä-Saimaa (Finland)

With this thriller, Antti Tuomainen shows that he is one of the best crime authors in Finland. The story is believable, exciting and wistful at the same time

—— Iltalehti Ilona (Finland)
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