Dan Stevens does give each of the characters a distinctive voice, and there are a lot of characters to keep straight. Would you consider the audio edition of Murder on the Orient Express to be better than the print version? I have already bought the other Christy novel narrated by him which is currently available on Audible, and I hope there will be many more to come. I am beyond impressed, and he has found in me a devoted listener to whatever book he elects to lend his soothing voice to in the future.

He managed them wonderfully, slipping effortlessly and precisely from one to the other consistently, and there are no fewer than 16 characters. And if ever there were a test of skills, it is this book - since it is mostly conversation and interviews with characters who range the whole spectrum: male and female, and all classes and several different nationalities. But I am constantly dissapointed by narrators I like when they fail to adopt an appropriate voice for the opposite gender, or are imprecise or inconsistent in voicing multiple characters. I may have been predisposed to like him, having been one of his Downton Abbey fans, primarily I do love his voice. He was fantastic across the board I thought. What about Dan Stevens’s performance did you like? Similar not just because of the author and in the train as crime scene, but that they are also two of the Poirot mysteries which lack Captain Hastings and are 3rd person narratives.

The nearest I could get might have to be another Christy novel, starring Poirot, which I recently read: The Mystery of the Blue Train. What other book might you compare Murder on the Orient Express to and why? This particular story is a favorite, and this version was wonderfully narrated. This was already my second visit to the story in the past year, I am a Christy and Poirot fan through and through. Would you listen to Murder on the Orient Express again? Why?

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