Thank you for all your kind comments upon our seventy-fourth Tale for Our Time. There are two ways to enjoy our audio adventures: you can tune in nightly, twenty minutes before you lower your lamp - or you can save them up for a good old binge-listen on a long car journey fleeing New York or Virginia.
Meanwhile, welcome to Part Six of our autumnal entertainment. For this season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, we're enjoying The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie, a second adventure for Hercule Poirot after The Mysterious Affair at Styles. In tonight's episode, the commissary shows Poirot and Hastings the scene of the crime:
A few steps further on, a neat line of small bushes marked the boundary of the Villa grounds. M. Bex pushed his way through these and we found ourselves on a wide stretch of open downs. I looked round, and saw something that filled me with astonishment.
"Why, this is a golf course," I cried.
Bex nodded.
"The limits are not completed yet," he explained. "It is hoped to be able to open them sometime next month. It was some of the men working on them who discovered the body early this morning."
I gave a gasp. A little to my left, where for the moment I had overlooked it, was a long narrow pit, and by it, face downwards, was the body of a man!
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We'll be back here with Part Seven of The Murder on the Links tomorrow evening.
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