Crooked House

5 hrs. 55 min.

Language Russian

Author Agatha Christie

Narrator Sergey Kirsanov

Description

Remember that English nursery rhyme translated by Korney Chukovsky:
“Beyond the bent river / In the crooked little house / There lived in summer and winter / Crooked mice.”

For the residents of the mansion “Three Fronts,” this rhyme is very fitting—the sprawling extension made of cottages, inhabited by a large, loud family, really does resemble that very “crooked little house.” In such a house, веселий commotion is simply required. But one day murders begin to happen there…

In Egypt, Charles Hayward meets Sophia Leonidis, the granddaughter of the wealthy oligarch Aristide Leonidis. Two years later Charles comes to Sophia to ask for her hand. But in Sophia’s family a tragedy strikes—her grandfather has been murdered. The circumstances of his death soon become clear: instead of insulin, a fatal dose of eserine was injected into him—eye drops. Any member of the family could have swapped the bottles. Charles, the son of a police commissioner’s assistant, takes on the case. This novel is considered one of Agatha Christie’s best because of its unexpected resolution.